#banish

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. ↗

— Voltaire

#banished #beauties #compliment #didactic #flowery

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#alert #banish #cats #complaisance #discriminating

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#awe #banish #cannot #dangers #demean

Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#appeal #appealing #banished #before #dark

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#king-lear #freedom

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#back #bad #banished #being #civility

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#banished #caught #entire #get #illegal

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#banish #domestic #general #independence #kind

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. ↗

— George Washington

#earth #first #mankind #plague #see

Let us banish fear. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#fear #let us #us