Best Handkerchiefs Quotes
52 Handkerchiefs quotes by 46 unique authors
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It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I…
— Lewis Carroll
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I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using…
— Charles Dickens
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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the…
— Miriam Toews
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It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and…
— Haruki Murakami
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Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic…
— Georgette Heyer
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Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you…
— Georgette Heyer
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies…
— Catherine Fisher
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They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
— Douglas Adams
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Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.
— Haruki Murakami
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So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused.…
— Franny Billingsley
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A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
— Gail Carriger
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What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both…
— Daniel Handler
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They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding…
— Jessica Day George
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Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
— Alain de Botton
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The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in…
— Pablo Neruda
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He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.
— Cassandra Clare
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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures…
— Gail Carriger
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The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color…
— Erin Morgenstern
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She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At…
— Gail Carriger
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Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow.…
— Elizabeth Wein
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of…
— J. Courtney Sullivan
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