Curious Quotes

911 Curious quotes by 707 unique authors

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this… — Lewis Carroll
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as… — George Orwell
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over… — Arundhati Roy
It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. — Susanna Clarke
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that… — Jodi Picoult
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small… — Leonard Cohen
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave… — Stella Gibbons
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS… — Yann Martel
And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said… — Lewis Carroll
The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd… — John Steinbeck
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it… — W. Somerset Maugham
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life… — Sebastian Faulks
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes… — Lawrence Durrell
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it. — Agatha Christie
The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled… — Susanna Clarke
I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better… — Audrey Niffenegger
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to… — Carl Sagan
She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers… — Stephen King
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part… — Joseph Campbell

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