Aunt Quotes

351 quotes by 274 authors

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel — Henry James
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said,… — Paulette Jiles
At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as… — Adeline Yen Mah
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to.… — Margaret Atwood
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me,… — Mark Twain
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had… — Edith Wharton
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. — Eleanor Porter
It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops… — P.G. Wodehouse
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that… — Stephen Chbosky
What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could… — P.G. Wodehouse
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in… — Christopher Moore
my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my… — E E Cummings
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news,"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. — Jeffrey Eugenides
We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even… — Isabel Allende

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