Cousin Quotes
379 Cousin quotes by 317 unique authors
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, "You just haven't met the…
— Tina Fey
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Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't…
— Andy Rooney
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Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said!…
— Melina Marchetta
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All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins…
— Alice Walker
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Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.
— Alethea Kontis
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A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and…
— Cynthia Ozick
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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong.…
— Alice Hoffman
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Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I…
— Stephen Chbosky
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My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap…
— Louise Rennison
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Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in…
— Susan Cain
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Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms…
— Tamora Pierce
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...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say,…
— Eoin Colfer
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You said your cousin was a necromancer. You know how the natural necromancers operate?" They twisted the head off your favorite doll, stuffed a dead…
— Ilona Andrews
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Sheep. Looting. Cousins." Lucien cursed and got out of bed.
— Melina Marchetta
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But all I said, as I dug a five from my pocket to pay for my soda, was, "You have a friend?" Tod scowled. "Well,…
— Rachel Vincent
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I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay…
— Ally Carter
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I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,…
— Janet Frame
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Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
— R.L. LaFevers
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...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't…
— Ally Carter
Who Wrote These Cousin Quotes
317 authors contributed a total of 379 Cousin Quotes, led by these top contributors: