Dearness Quotes

10 quotes by 6 authors

• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage — Thomas Jefferson
• What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to… — John Flavel
• Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you… — Mary Oliver
• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to… — William Eckhardt
• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. — Thomas Paine
• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a… — Thomas Paine
• I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability… — Toni Morrison
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything… — Thomas Paine
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything… — Thomas Paine
• No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is,… — Thomas Jefferson

Who Wrote These Dearness Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 10 Dearness Quotes as follows:

• 4 Dearness Quotes by Thomas Paine
• 2 Dearness Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Dearness Quote by John Flavel
• 1 Dearness Quote by Mary Oliver
• 1 Dearness Quote by William Eckhardt
• 1 Dearness Quote by Toni Morrison