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badges

«Slippery bunch, angels, hiding their nasty little sins behind curtsies and compliments, Bibles and badges.»
Author: Jean Harris | Keywords: badges, hiding, slippery
«Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, [the empty bottle] was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication.»
«There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge -- but not a sausage.»
«EPAULET, n. An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy --that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.»
«She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would never take a drink, not even brandy if she were dying. Of course by temperance they all mean the opposite - total abstinence.»
Author: Elizabeth Taylor (Actress) | Keywords: badges
«I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...»
«I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions»
«Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.»
«Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.»
«Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.»