Dear Quotes
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
Catullus
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Libertarianism is 'cultish,' say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.
Thomas Woods
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
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Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.
Norton Juster
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How many men
Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
Thomas Otway
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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Vivien Leigh
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Let us clear a little space, And make Love a burial-place. He is dead, dear, as you see, And he wearies you and me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.
Anna Seghers
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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
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I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
George Eliot
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Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
William Shakespeare
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I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
John Hancock
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Dear Jesus, do something.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Adolf Loos
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Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!
Thomas Hood
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Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.
Robert W. Service
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We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.
Cecil Frances Alexander
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I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.
Sivamani
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
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It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?'
Anne Archer
