“The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides”
Julian Barnes
“It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]”
Sex and the City
“I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.”
Bill Clinton
“Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”
Ovid
“The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.”
Clarence Day
“He that stands upon a slippery place, makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up”
William Shakespeare
“So slippery thatThe fear's as bad as falling.”
