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Quotes About Weasel

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
~ Charles Baxter
You're alive! Percy said to the others. The giants said you were captured. What happened? Leo shrugged. Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez. You'd be amazed what you can do with an Archimedes sphere, a girl who can sense stuff underground, and a weasel. I was the weasel, Frank said glumly.
~ Rick Riordan
Weasel cookies.
~ Rick Riordan
Want a cookie,' Ra said. 'What kind?' 'Weasel cookie.' I'm here to tell you, that comment about weasel cookies probably saved the known universe.
~ Rick Riordan
I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.
~ William Shakespeare
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
~ John Hodgman
'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.
~ John Lanchester
Pop goes the weasel,' said Kiki, and nibbled at Jack's ear.
~ Enid Blyton
For example, class names including weasel words like Processor or Manager or Super often hint at unfortunate aggregation of responsibilities.
~ Robert C. Martin
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.
~ Scott Adams
A painter without a brush is like a weasel without a tongue
~ Leonardo da Vinci
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
~ Meriwether Lewis
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
~ Daniel Berrigan
Up and down the City Road,In and out the Eagle,That's the way the money goes—Pop goes the weasel!
~ Anonymous
You put a weasel in a forty-dollar suit, and you get a forty-dollar weasel.
~ Scott Nicholson
I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-
~ Cassandra Clare
And I suspect that for me the way is like the weasel's: open to time and death painlessly, noticing everyting, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
~ Annie Dillard
Aldred the weasel took up the tale.
~ John Houghton
People in my constituency are starving and born with sixteen fingers. Did you ever eat weasel shish-kebob? Freddy doesn't walk by the side of the motorways to gather dandelions for his salad, but the people who sent me here do. Why are we supporting him? He doesn't deserve it. The Tories won't give milk to children who go to school hungry and come home to baked cat.
~ Mark Helprin
Linh has informed me of something called 'fox' coffee, ca-phe-chon, a brew made from the tenderest beans, fed to a fox (though I have since seen it referred to as a weasel), and the beans later recovered from the animal's stool, washed (presumably), roasted, and ground. Sounds good to me.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
~ W. C. Fields
I was recently given a power drill, which also sets and removes screws. It could be a small cannon, so apprehensive am I of its fierce and quick power. When I handle it well (which to begin with means that I aim it correctly), difficult tasks are made easy. But when I do not, I hold an angry weasel in my hand.
~ Mary Oliver
Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
~ Bill Bailey