Dear Quotes

• She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Love
  • Son
  • Dear

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Rich
  • Use

• 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

• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Praise
  • Remembrance

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Men
  • Character

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

  

  Richard Lovelace
  • Military
  • Honor
  • Dear

• You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. And while we all hope our kids grow up to have sex, we do not hope they grow up to shoot someone in the face.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Kids
  • Faces
  • Grows

• 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

1

2

3

4

5

previous

next