Dear famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
-- Al Yankovic -
The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
-- Annie Dillard -
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
-- Aphra Behn -
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
They tried stoning me, my dear. It did not work…
-- Barnabas -
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
-- Ben Jonson -
There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.
-- Bob Dylan -
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
-- Charles Olson -
[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.
-- Dagmar Godowsky -
Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.
-- Dan Brown -
Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.
-- Daniel Handler -
Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!
-- Diane Duane -
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
-- Dirk Benedict -
I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
-- Ed Harris -
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
-- Edgar Wright -
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
-- Emile Zola -
I ride horses once in a while, but Im no expert. I hold on for dear life.
-- Emily Robison -
It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.
-- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury -
Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
-- Ferenc Kazinczy -
There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
-- Gail Carriger -
Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
-- Gautama Buddha -
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
-- George Santayana -
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
-- Georgette Heyer -
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
-- Gertrude Stein -
Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?
-- Grover Cleveland -
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
-- Han Suyin -
You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
-- Harvey Keitel -
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
-- Henry James -
Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.
-- Henry Vaughan -
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
-- Horace Greeley -
I would hold you up. I will ever hold you up and hold you dear, lover mine.
-- J.R. Ward -
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
-- James Whistler -
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
-- Jasper Fforde -
People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.
-- Jean Kerr -
And so as much as I can, I care about her, dear Deborah. It's probably not love, but I would rather she were happy.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.
-- Jessica Fellowes -
I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.
-- Joan Sutherland -
There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.
-- Joss Whedon -
Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.
-- Jules Verne -
My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.
-- Karen Hawkins -
Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers the goods.
-- Kin Hubbard -
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
-- Liza Minnelli -
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
-- Lloyd Alexander -
Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.
-- Lola Ridge -
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
-- Lynda Barry -
Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.
-- Maggie Smith -
Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.
-- Malorie Blackman -
Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.
-- Margaret Atwood -
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
-- Maria Callas -
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
-- Maria Callas -
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.
-- Mary Russell Mitford -
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.
-- Matt Fitzgerald -
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
-- Matthew Arnold -
Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.
-- Maud Lindsay -
Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.
-- Meg Rosoff -
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
-- Meher Baba -
My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.
-- Miranda Hart -
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
-- Mother Teresa -
Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
-- Mother Teresa -
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
-- Nancy Mitford -
You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.
-- Neil Gaiman -
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.
-- Olaf Stapledon -
Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.
-- Pope Francis -
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
-- Pythagoras -
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
-- Rachel Caine -
Things never happen the same way twice, dear one.
-- Reza Aslan -
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.
-- Richard Lovelace -
Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.
-- Robert Rankin -
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
-- Rumi -
Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.
-- Saint Augustine -
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
-- Samuel Beckett -
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
-- Samuel Lover -
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
-- Sarah Vowell -
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
-- Steven Erikson -
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
-- Sun Tzu -
Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
-- Ted Dekker