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This collection holds 18 rakes quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Samuel Richardson, Alexander Pope and Judith Mcnaught.

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Every woman is at heart a rake.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

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