Fain Quotes

41 quotes by 33 authors

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey… — Miguel de Cervantes
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let… — Henry David Thoreau
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power… — Thomas Campion
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. — Henry David Thoreau
He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or… — Melody Beattie
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! â€”Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,… — William Shakespeare
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain… — William Shakespeare
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too… — Elizabeth Gaskell
For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about… — Robert Jordan
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning… — Henri Bergson
I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey… — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent… — Henry David Thoreau
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by… — Marcel Proust
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand… — Ambrose Bierce

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