Never Quite Quotes

254 quotes by 219 authors

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. — Jacob Bronowski
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. — Margaret Culkin Banning
It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am. — Arthur Ashe
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Robert Montgomery
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come… — Quintilian
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always… — Tilda Swinton
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore
Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind… — Hedi Slimane
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you. — Michael Korda
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I… — Erica Jong
I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most… — Eliza Lynn Linton
If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do… — Paul Clitheroe
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic
The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion.… — Walt Morey
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You… — Annie Lennox
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as… — Sylvester Stallone
I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well — Oscar Wilde
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite… — Betty White

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