Dear Quotes

• If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Believe
  • Advice
  • Slave

• Dear Jesus, do something.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Jesus
  • Dear

• Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Rich
  • Use

• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Men
  • Character

• I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Missing
  • Kissing
  • Dear

• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  

  George Washington
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Army

• I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Country
  • Sacrifice
  • Duty

• God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Way
  • Should

• I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.

  

  Michael Bay
  • Dear
  • Teenage

• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Sweet
  • Common

• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Praise
  • Remembrance

• It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Important
  • Long
  • Certain

• This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Nurse

• It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • House
  • Finding
  • Ruins

• O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.

  

  William Morris
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Half

• Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.

  

  Hosni Mubarak
  • Men
  • Son
  • Leader

• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Life
  • Trick
  • Hiding

• The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Gift
  • Giver

• But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

  

  Sue Miller
  • Risk
  • Distance
  • Possibility

• No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Angry

• Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Wisdom
  • Genuine
  • Articles

• So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.

  

  Charles Rumney Samson
  • People
  • Excuse
  • Mess

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