Vapor Quotes

The grand show is eternal It is always sunrise somewhere

Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouth perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

I am declined Into the vale of years.

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.