Rake Quotes
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Rake Quotes & Sayings
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Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.
— Judith McNaught
There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
— Rob Sheffield
Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake
— Shelby Foote
not to lose it. My thoughts rake at my heart, pricking tears that begin to puddle in my eyes.
— E.K. Blair
And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?'
'Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris. — Steven Erikson
'Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris. — Steven Erikson
Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake
— Alexander Pope
We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination ... down our earth to rake ...
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It's impossible," he snapped.
"Why?"
"Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that. — Lisa Kleypas
"Why?"
"Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that. — Lisa Kleypas
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
— Lord Byron
Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.
— Christina Dodd
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...
— Neal Stephenson
The man lived like a monk.
And made love like a sinner. — Cindy Gerard
And made love like a sinner. — Cindy Gerard
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
— Dan Buettner
It was quite apparent that he'd been bestowed all the charms of any handsomely clad rake. A demeanor to match, Ruby thought.
— Jettie Necole
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined
— Karen Ranney
There are a hundred pathways to Om. Unfortunately, I sometimes think someone left a rake lying across a lot of them.
— Terry Pratchett
If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
— Joe Hill
I steal from the rich to give to myself.
— Robert Thier
When a rake falls, he falls forever. <3
— Anne Gracie
Every woman is at heart a rake.
— Alexander Pope
Some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.'" "The
— Wilkie Collins
... magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass.
— Terry Pratchett
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it's better than rats.
— Anne Stuart
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
— Mark Twain
If trees had love, instead of leaves, I'd gladly rake you into a pile on my lawn and fall into you.
— Jarod Kintz
Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".
— Paul David Tripp
Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.
— Frank Chodorov
I'm frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.
— Collette West
Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.
— Mithun Chakraborty
When a rake falls, he falls forever.
— Anne Gracie
Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.
— Anne Gracie
She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake
— Cormac McCarthy
While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.
— Henny Youngman
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
— Samuel Richardson
[Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
— John Milton
Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
— Mary Balogh
But magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Winter
— Terry Pratchett