Dearest Quotes
209 quotes by 180 authors
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What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
— Richard Bach
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
— Louisa May Alcott
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If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there…
— Maureen Corrigan
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But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest — so sweetly…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights…
— George Washington
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Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the…
— James M. Barrie
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She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
— Euripides
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They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when…
— James M. Barrie
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All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways…
— Homer
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I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my…
— Neil Gaiman
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Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the…
— John Clare
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When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the…
— Christina Rossetti
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Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
— Ian Mcewan
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Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna
— George R. R. Martin
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Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just…
— Truman Capote
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