Quotes of: Consummate Keyword

Consummation is consumption. We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume. All joys are cakes and vanish in eating. All bliss is sugar's melting in the mouth.

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and sha...

Wolf Hall

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be ot...

The Innocents Abroad

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Jennifer O'Neill

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

Girl in a Blue Dress

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

James Dickey

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Woodrow Wilson

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

LaToya Jackson

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

Lord Mountbatten

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

Craig Brown

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Brave New World

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative.

Mike Curb

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Laura Dern

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Emile M. Cioran

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

Christine Baranski

Sex is the way to consummate love, no the way to make someone to love you

Love

I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

Miguel

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

Evan Williams

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

Martin Lawrence