War Paint Quotes

• Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

  Dane Cook

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  FaceBook post by Dane Cook from Sep 04, 2014

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• Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Jealousy, War, Naked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: And, The Amateur Emigrant”, Penguin Classics

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• We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Tattoo, War, Giving

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290

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• The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Men, Office

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• I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we have brought down from our barbarious ancestors. We have left off the war paint and war whoops, and we shall leave off the hangin' when we get civilized.

  Marietta Holley

  War, Ideas, Reform

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• Es usted muy listo", dijo tímidamente el anciano. Por alguna razón, los libros de etiqueta que la abuela de Daphne le había enseñado no trataban este tema. Por supuesto, la gente tonta decía a los bebés: "¡Sois tan dulces que podría engulliros a todos!", pero ese tipo de tonterías parecían menos graciosas cuando las decía un hombre con pinturas de guerra que poseía más de una calavera. Daphne, maldecida por los buenos modales, se conformó con: "Es muy amable por su parte.

  Terry Pratchett

  Bebé, Dulce, Inteligente

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