Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“They were still in that forgiving time when even their flaws were quaint.” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
Not that I ever tried to be a saint. Im the type that they classify as quaint. — Beegie Adair Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too. — Bill Irwin Copy Share Image
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. — David Brin Copy Share Image
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very… — SZA Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A precious, mouldering pleasure ’tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations… — Richardson Wright Copy Share Image
If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen… — William James Copy Share Image
Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision… — Laurent Baheux Copy Share Image