Old Fashioned Quotes

357 Old Fashioned quotes by 326 unique authors

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. — Oscar Wilde
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well,… — Rowan Williams
I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people… — Rob Zombie
Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned… — Janet Fitch
Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which… — Patrick O'Brian
Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know… — Neil Gaiman
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity. — Robertson Davies
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to… — Susanna Clarke
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want… — Ellen DeGeneres
I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story. — Wilkie Collins
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll… — Berkeley Breathed
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska
Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a… — E L Konigsburg
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for… — Bob Hope
While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not… — Margaret Atwood
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! — Dr. Seuss
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell
I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter… — Witold Gombrowicz
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or… — J. G. Ballard
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy. — Louisa May Alcott

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