Quotes About Rakes

brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Since she was a scrappy little Hampden girl whose father owned one of those hardware stores where you walk in off the street and say, 'Oh, my God! I'm so sorry! I seem to be in somebody's basement!' Shovels and rakes and wheelbarrows crowded up close together, coils of rope and lengths of chain hanging down from this really low ceiling you could practically bump your head on, and a tabby cat sound asleep on a sack of grass seed.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

One of his brows lifted in a rather superior manner. "And you wouldn't classify your brothers as rakes?" "They only think they are rakes," she corrected. "There is a considerable difference." Simon snorted. "If Anthony isn't a rake, I pity the woman who meets the man who is." -Simon & Daphne

The topic of rakes has, of course, been previously discussed in this column, and This Author has come to the conclusion that there are rakes, and there are Rakes. Anthony Bridgerton is a Rake.

Introducing non-copy-protected software into this kind of an environment may be the single most boneheaded thing that American business has ever done in its long history of stepping on rakes in Asia.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. "Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he's a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

He'll catch the pox someday," Pandora persisted darkly, "if he hasn't already. And then he'll give it to me." "You're being dramatic. And not all rakes have the pox." "I'm going to ask him if he does." "Pandora, you wouldn't! The poor man would be horrified." "So would I, if I ended up losing my nose.

Rakes make good husbands. Especially when they fall in love.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

In the land of historical romance novels, particularly the Regencies, there is no line more quoted than this: Reformed rakes make the best husbands. It's the sort of pithy one-liner a beloved character dashes off and everyone laughs a sparkling laugh, the heroine knits her brow, and the rogue in question scowls but we all know the truth: That bad boy will soon be reformed. And he will like it.