Best Airy Sayings
75 Airy quotes by 59 unique authors
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Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be…
— Mary Balogh
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hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with…
— Louisa May Alcott
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the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once,…
— Charles Dickens
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Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.…
— John Donne
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At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings,…
— Jean Cocteau
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Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush…
— Kristin Hannah
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their…
— William Shakespeare
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The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so…
— William Shakespeare
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Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident.…
— George R. R. Martin
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The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness…
— Lisi Harrison
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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Gold to airy thinness beat.
— Cassandra Clare
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But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You…
— Lauren Oliver
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt…
— H. Rider Haggard
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You may be right. I think it was round about Christmas when I got my Welsh dragon tattoo.” At that, Tessa had to try very…
— Cassandra Clare
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A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more…
— Rajneesh
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A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with…
— Llewelyn Powys
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Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And…
— Will Carleton
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
— Samuel Johnson
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We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood…
— Lyall Watson
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My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.
— Sophie Kennedy Clark
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
— Samuel Johnson
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There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief,…
— William Shakespeare
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Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn…
— John Milton
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