Best 225 quotes in «dear quotes» category

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

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.

Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's aware there's a reader, which goes all the way back to Montaigne's often-used address "dear reader," or his brief introduction to Essais: "To the Reader." It can be done in a myriad of ways.

Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not?

The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow.

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

The better to eat you with, my dear.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.

There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

The stage is near and dear to me.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

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.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.