Fond Quotes
478 Fond quotes by 387 unique authors
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize…
— Stephen Fry
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My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of…
— Theophile Gautier
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A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection…
— Dan Chaon
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I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway." "Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Tam: What begg’st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue…
— William Shakespeare
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Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their…
— William Shakespeare
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I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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And I don’t see how Sebastian can be all that fond of Jace, either. He was horribly jealous of him all his life. He thought…
— Cassandra Clare
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It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.
— Mark Gatiss
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I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess…
— James Joyce
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I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of…
— Voltaire
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And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
— Donna Tartt
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This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next,…
— Tessa Dare
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Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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She liked to imagine him stealing a glimpse of her over the backyard fence, proudly watching his strange daughter daydream under the beech tree. Blue…
— Maggie Stiefvater
Who Wrote These Fond Quotes
387 authors contributed a total of 478 Fond Quotes, led by these top contributors: