Quotes About Glib

urban deprivation, the condition of being so sophisticated that you plumb the nature of most other people's experience out of your life like waste. Your attitudes are so glib and self-assured and automatic, you lose the necessary naivety that is living. That way, you eat everything and taste nothing.

Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it's not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You're bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This "new invented daimon" you laugh at — take my word for it — he's not one to laugh at. He's going to be big.

Questions, questions."Gaudior stomped one silver hoof. "I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.

Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.

Your eyes, ma'am -- as well you know!! -- cried Help me ! What could I do but respond to the appeal?' 'Next you will say that it went much against the pluck with you!' said Miss Trent, justly incensed. 'No service I could render you, ma'am, would go against the pluck!' Her colour mounted, but she said: 'I should have guessed you would have a glib answer ready!' 'You might also have guessed that I meant it.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

He is a perfect politician: glib, superficial, manipulative; a great sense of self and a natural talent for a profession for which lying is usually listed at the top of the job decription. In short, the clinical definition of your average sociopath.

Vultures are difficult to charm unless you're off somewhere rotting in the noonday sun. Casually rotting…a glib cadaver.

Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You're just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I can talk the hind leg off a donkey.

My impression," said the King, "was that Howl is an unprincipled, slippery rogue with a glib tongue and a clever mind. Would you agree?

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.