Dainty Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits…
— Pope Leo XII
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food,…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.
— Diane Kruger
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Everything I do is inspired by my early lifeâ€, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for…
— Louise Bourgeois
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There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.
— Doug Stanhope
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So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to…
— General Butt Naked
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
— Robert Herrick
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell…
— Charles Dickens
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a…
— John Aylmer
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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
— Francis Beaumont
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I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
— Maureen O'Hara
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Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.
— Dorothy Parker
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Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied…
— James Whistler
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
— William Shakespeare
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With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder,…
— Hartley Coleridge
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