#wallowing

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#last #lies #own #parties #political

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

#ceiling #eating #find #fists #i

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#armies #banners #defeat #ever #force

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#swallowing #words #anger

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#brooding #guilt #morality #remorse #repentance

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-indulgence #wallowing #melancholy

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#unrequited-love #wallowing #love

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ↗

— George Carlin

#death #long #long period #over #period

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#i #kept #pent #swallowing #up

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#colleges #far #go #swallowing #up