Fondness Quotes · Page 2

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I have a fondness for when the landscape becomes surreal.

— Edward Burtynsky

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

— Samuel Johnson

I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.

— Mark Cavendish

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

— Norman Lock

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

— Benjamin J. Carey

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

— John B. S. Haldane

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

People deal with me, but they are genuinely fond of Prim. Maybe there will be enough fondness to keep her alive.

— Suzanne Collins

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

— Barbara Mertz

“people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.”

— Michael Lewis

“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”

— Robin Hobb

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is…

— Sadaharu Oh

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely…

— Mohsin Hamid

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a…

— Khaled Hosseini

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely…

— Mohsin Hamid

You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same…

— Miyamoto Musashi

“Let me write not for fame and laurel, but from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if…

— John Keats

America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about…

— Justin Hayward

“When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to…

— Lord Krishna

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them.…

— Cormac McCarthy

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to…

— Angela Thirkell

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...…

— Wilkie Collins

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,…

— Victor Hugo

Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could…

— Charlotte Bronte

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and…

— Lewis Thomas

“If they told us, that in a pre-existent state the soul was fond of dress, and brought this inclination with it into…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

— Alexander Hamilton

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

— Robert Silverberg

The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.

— Isaac Watts

“How someone’s fondness can bring a life of another person. We both were drowned in love and adoring each other.”

— Sushil Kumar Rana

I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.

— Mick Foley

I still felt fondness for her - fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.

— David Levithan

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for…

— Bianca Del Rio

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

— Jane Austen

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

— Baron de Montesquieu

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

“That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet