Fond Quotes
478 Fond quotes by 387 unique authors
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Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I am especially fond of you.
— William P. Young
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If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
— Milan Kundera
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond…
— William Shakespeare
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
— Jasper Fforde
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I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.
— Jen Lancaster
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The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled…
— Susanna Clarke
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You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven…
— J D Salinger
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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance…
— Oscar Wilde
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Magic things are fond of deceptions.
— Tom Robbins
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You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Marcus: Cherry? Jillian: My ten-year-old niece. Marcus: She's named after a piece of fruit? Jillian nodded. Jillian: So is her twin sister, Apple. Marcus: You're…
— Gena Showalter
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I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't…
— Peter Cameron
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination;…
— E E Cummings
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Cats are fond of mooning.
— Lilian Jackson Braun
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
— Oscar Wilde
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
— Robert Jordan
Who Wrote These Fond Quotes
387 authors contributed a total of 478 Fond Quotes, led by these top contributors: