Quotes About Eulogizing

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Lansdale had been with Roxas earlier that same day, part of the president's press corps entourage, but about all he could find to say by way of eulogizing the fallen leader was, "now that I've switched to Chesterfields, he didn't bum Camels from me as he used to do.

What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.

Giant sunflowers, like junkie scarecrows on the nod dozed in one spot with their dry heads dropped upon their breastbones. Their lives extended another day, flies buzzed everything within their range, monotonously eulogizing themselves, like the patriots who persist in praising the glory of a culture long after it is decadent and doomed.