Devours Quotes

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Rich, Poor

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot

Year, Tiger, Springs

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac

Marriage, Everything, Monster

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac

Time, Finance, Children

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

Time, Fire, Made

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Passion, Everything

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, Beauty, Food

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy

Respect, Lose, Lion

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner

Children, Revolution, Saturn

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Anthony Horowitz

Perfect, She, Read

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
Parker Stevenson

Work, Done, After

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank

Family, Husband, Son

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