Whipping Quotes

• Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Desert, Use

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [561]

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• He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

  Thomas Brooks

  Punishment, May, Glad

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.41

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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Abuse, Double Standard

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

  Jim Knight

  Horse, Beating A Dead Horse

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• We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

  Cleo Moore

  Wife, Acting, Adultery

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• I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

  Olivia Munn

  Fun, Play, Names

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• Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  War, Nuclear, Pushing

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1984). “Speeches and Writings”, Pergamon

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• Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Honor, Desert

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.64, Hackett Publishing

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• I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Boys, Punishment, Obstinate

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.494, Xist Publishing

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• The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way.

  Wesley Willis

  Music, Horse, Real

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• I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

  Frederick Douglass

  Land, Looks, Calling

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.132, Penguin

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• Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.

  Susan Chira

  Mother, Baby, Educational

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.

  Curtis Stone

  Dad, Cooking, Important

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• Did you see those Iraqis making that pilgrimage slashing their foreheads with knives and whipping their backs with chains. See, when Saddam Hussein was around they weren't allowed to make that pilgrimage. If they tried that with Saddam Hussein, he would have slashed their foreheads with knives and whipped their backs with chains.

  Jay Leno

  Knives, Hussein, Chains

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• Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Nephew, Slave

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• I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving Up, Thinking, Political

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• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Doors, Wind, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.140, Hamilton Books

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• Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Eye, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.

  Jubal Early

  Military, War, Army

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

  Jim Beaver

  Cancer, Fighting, Lunch

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• For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

  Jane Lynch

  Jobs, Moving, Ambition

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• He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Long, Lines

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.284, Penguin

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• Lawrence has a wonderful hill in it, with a university on top and the first time I ran away from home, I ran up the hill and looked across the world: Kansas wheat fields and the Kaw River, and I wanted to go some place, too. I got a whipping for it.

  Langston Hughes

  Home, Wheat Fields, Rivers

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