Hints Quotes
Collection of top 76 famous quotes about Hints
Hints Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Hints quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
— Joseph Joubert
For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.
— James Joyce
Magic would always have a place in the world as long as those hints of reverence continued to exist.
— Debora Geary
Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
— John C. Bogle
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
— Anthony Hecht
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.
— D.H. Lawrence
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
— Truman Capote
Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.
— George Ade
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
— Charles Stross
With his long hair, his hints of violence, and his promise of ecstasy, Dionysus was the first rock star.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
These are only hints an guesses ... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action.
— T. S. Eliot
He was the soul of politeness to everyone to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect. — Ivan Turgenev
Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.
— Brandon Mull
It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
— Joseph Conrad
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
— Margaret Millar
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
— Austin O'Malley
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.
— Laini Taylor
It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.
— Alan Hollinghurst
Be very sure, if you would train children for heaven, they are hints that ought not to be lightly set aside.
— J.C. Ryle
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
— Chinua Achebe
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
— John Roberts
If you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
— Sara Gruen
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
— Lady Margaret Sackville
The Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn't exist.
— John Ankerberg
if I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man.
— George Alec Effinger
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
— Martin E. Marty
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.
— C.J. Anderson
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
— Luci Shaw
Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This
— Renni Browne
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
— Robert Frost
There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.
— Dexter Palmer
What good is always being happy? Sadness hints at the possibility of a future reward.
— Daniel Wallace
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.
— Eric Hoffer
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
— Alfonso X Of Castile
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
— Alain De Botton
when you conclude a paper, you should always close a door and open a window
— Benjamin K. Bergen
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
— Joseph Addison
I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.
— James Floyd
cats on hot bricks could take hints from me
— P.G. Wodehouse
No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Charlie X)? Those were the hints, as far as I'm concerned.
— Nichelle Nichols
His eyes made her think of water at night - full of mysteries and hints, revealing little.
— Eileen Wilks
What you say hints to who you are.What you do says who you are.
What you do and say, says it loudest. — Matshona Dhliwayo
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
— Mark Jacobs
I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.
— Christopher Pike
Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it.
— Robin Rose Bennett
Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.
— Mason Cooley
We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'
— Roberto Cavalli
A few hints as to literary craftsmanship may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
— Samuel Eliot Morison
The only consent hinge in life is that everyhin is changing. And that's a little scary, but it means that hints can't be bad or hard forever.
— Amanda Hocking
