Altogether Quotes
599 Altogether quotes by 493 unique authors
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,…
— Ezra Pound
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
— Jules Verne
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Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my…
— Richelle Mead
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All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
— Frederick Buechner
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The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
— Konrad Lorenz
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The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't…
— Bill Bryson
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His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
— George Orwell
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It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train…
— Lorrie Moore
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Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving…
— Edith Schaeffer
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He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In…
— Mitch Albom
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.…
— Lewis Carroll
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A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a great deal of effort but the rewards are…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take…
— Quentin Crisp
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Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out…
— Mark Dunn
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I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone…
— Wendell Berry
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Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be…
— Natsuo Kirino
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The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have…
— Andy Andrews
Who Wrote These Altogether Quotes
493 authors contributed a total of 599 Altogether Quotes, led by these top contributors: