Quotes About Insinuating

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just on a visit or something like that? He looked me over stupidly, and said: Marry, fair sir, me seemeth— That will do, I said; I reckon you are a patient.

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Instead he stood erect, the snow insinuating itself down his collar and up his sleeves, plastering against his face and into his unblinking eyes.

He was insinuating, he was always around, he was like a cat in a bookstore window, letting his tail slowly drape across all the books as he wandered by.