A quaint conceit, don't you think?

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom?…

— Tom Stoppard

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the…

— C. S. Lewis

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so…

— Polly Bergen

I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too.

— Bill Irwin

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in…

— SZA

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975,…

— Michael Chabon

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in…

— Mitch Daniels

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time,…

— David Suzuki

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

— Alberto Gonzales

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children…

— Anna Quindlen

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress…

— Alison Lurie