Double Quotes

986 quotes by 819 authors

Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first… — Rachel Caine
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. — Robert Cormier
It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered… — Lauren Oliver
Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy. — Lisa McMann
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit… — David Nicholls
And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them."… — Simone Elkeles
Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado) — William Shakespeare
One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least… — Michael Moore
Now, Watson,â€ said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that… — Henry David Thoreau
Let me give you free advice, kid. Whenever something is coming for you, snap its neck or double tap. Never, ever hesitate. Itâ€™s infinitely better… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look… — J M Coetzee
I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and… — Anne Frank
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the… — Walter Scott
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at… — David Levithan
Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double. — John le Carre

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