Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves. — August Bier Copy Share Image
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat… — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots],… — Patience Gray Copy Share Image
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
