The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous 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
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels 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
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
I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too. — Bill Irwin Copy Share Image
Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just… — Polly Bergen Copy Share Image
Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
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 Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity.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
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
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts.… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. — David Brin 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
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
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
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
Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us sympathetic with the plight of indigenous people view them as quaint and colorful, but somehow… — Wade Davis 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
