Ill Quotes
2328 Ill quotes by 1379 unique authors
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A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him…
— Anne Ursu
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Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we…
— David Almond
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What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.
— Gail Carriger
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious…
— Stephen Fry
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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
— William Shakespeare
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
— Jonathan Swift
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow…
— Franny Billingsley
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In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so…
— Bertrand Russell
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I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being…
— Maureen Johnson
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What is this?” he went on now, spearing an unfortunate object on a fork and raising it to eye level. “This… this… thing?” “A parsnip?”…
— Cassandra Clare
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the…
— Christopher Morley
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Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.” “Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on…
— Jay Asher
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Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change,…
— Cameron Dokey
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The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding…
— Margaret Atwood
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To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search…
— Charles Darwin
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The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them,…
— Bernard Beckett
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
— Thomas Hardy
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If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
— Unknown Author
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The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children…
— Jane Austen
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