Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator’s pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge… Well, allow me to introduce myself to you… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
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