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Fawns Quotes

What about your crepe? Stuff It. She's crazy about you, Mavis commented. It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.

Nora Roberts
Crazy, Fawns, Stuff
J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.538, Penguin

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

Fidel Castro
War, Movement, Fawns
Fidel Castro's announcement of his resignation as Prime Minister, July 17, 1959.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Diogenes
Dog, Giving, Fawns

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

William Shakespeare
Men, Hug, Fawns
William Shakespeare, David Daniell (1998). “Julius Caesar: Third Series”, p.168, Cengage Learning EMEA

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Raymond Chandler
Fawns, Might, Ifs
Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Lady in the Lake: The Little Sister ; The Long Goodbye ; Playback”, Everyman's Library

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Junius
Coward, Fawns, Dare

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

William Shakespeare
Dog, Men, Fawns

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Samuel Richardson
Men, Feet, Fawns
Samuel Richardson (1754). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters Published from the Originals, by the Editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In Seven Volumes”, p.232

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

Maria V. Snyder
Bye, Jail, Fawns
Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.15, MIRA

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

D. H. Lawrence
Love You, Flower, Fawns
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.707, Delphi Classics

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

Aesop
Friendship, Enemy, Fawns
Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.74, Aesop

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