Aunt Quotes
351 Aunt quotes by 274 unique authors
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Don’t talk like that, Dill,†said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.†“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s…
— Harper Lee
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Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I…
— Louise Erdrich
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Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan GarcÃa Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not…
— Roberto Bolano
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Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
— Rose Macaulay
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My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life…
— Douglas Adams
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
— Jack Kerouac
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And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in…
— Dylan Thomas
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I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.
— Ilona Andrews
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I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.
— Ilona Andrews
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Now give me a kiss, say you love me and off you go." "Sure, Aunt Lu," I said, and I gave her the kiss she…
— Unknown Author
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Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers,…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I…
— Meg Cabot
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Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible…
— Marilynne Robinson
Who Wrote These Aunt Quotes
274 authors contributed a total of 351 Aunt Quotes, led by these top contributors: