Dear Quotes - page 6

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves. (Boris Pasternak)
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals. View quote
Steven Erikson
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. View quote
Rumi
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! View quote
William Wordsworth
The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. View quote
Mary Shelley
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation. (Andrew Dickson White)
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure. My own free spirit I have followed, And never will I give up lust. View quote
Abu Nuwas
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? View quote
Anton Chekhov
The bright old day now dawns again the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread in Ireland, sword and brand and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days hail to the coming time. View quote
Charles Dickens
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve My dear, we live in an age of transition. View quote
William Ralph Inge
After all, my earstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished? View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. View quote
Homer
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. View quote
Molière
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. View quote
William Shakespeare
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more Or close the wall up with our English dead. (William Shakespeare)
I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! View quote
Thomas Hood
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! View quote
Thomas Hood
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. View quote
Leo Tolstoy