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Quotes About Lash

When you're talking about peasants and children - obviously I've got some experience dealing with children - when you deal with children they act out and the lash out.
~ Greg Hardy
If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
~ William Butler Yeats
Whence had they come,The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome?What sacred drama through her body heavedWhen world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?
~ William Butler Yeats
The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.
~ John Lamb Lash
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
~ Winston Churchill
And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
~ John Dryden
You are dreaming, children, dreams dearer than gold, more blest than the Blest beyond the North Wind's raging. Dreams are easy, oh, but the double lash is striking home.
~ Aeschylus
Why should cattle have the gift of freedom? Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
You're going to hurt yourself." She worked up a few tears, letting them glisten on her long dark lashes. " You're hurting me." "Not yet," Trace told her, unmoved by the false show of emotion. "But the idea of putting you over my knee gets more tempting by the second.
~ Lori Foster
Not with a Club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone—A Whip so small you could not see itI've knownTo lash the Magic CreatureTill it fell.
~ Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash, the poet Sadiq Khan once wrote. But sometimes, being silent is the only way to tell the truth.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.
~ Laura A. Lord, Perjury
you can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.
~ Caprice Crane
Sounds like you want a date, Lash, Qhuinn barked. Good deal, 'cause you keep that shit up, you're going to get fucked, buddy.
~ J.R. Ward
You're the one with almost an MBA," Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. "You should know what to do." "They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker," Lash countered. "That's a whole different program. Political science, I think." Despite
~ Christopher Moore
If he sinned, she tortured him. If he drank, and lied, was often a poltroon, sometimes a knave, she wielded the lash unmercifully.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Experimenting later, in a coffee shop toilet, I discover that I have acquired a couple of raking-tools-cum-hairgrips. Also a tube of mascara: something called Glam'Eyes Lash Flirt, a product which would attract me more had it been less reckless with its apostrophe.
~ Harry Bingham
Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.
~ learner tobsha
Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got used to its rumbling, ruminating presence, it would lash out, stike you down, stio you dead in your tracks. The worst thing was, it was entirely unpredicatable.
~ Lesley Lokko
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
~ Winston S. Churchill
You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never. One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
~ Hilary Mantel