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Tag Name "Herrings" (9)

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Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
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Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year The spring begins before the winter's over.
Elinor Wylie
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It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
Kevin Spacey
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
Peter Greenaway
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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.
William Shakespeare
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The moon shone like herrings in the water.
Dorothy Wordsworth
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
Garry Disher
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Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge