Puff Quotes
144 quotes by 126 authors
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Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were…
— Katherine Mansfield
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Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
— Louisa May Alcott
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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while.…
— Albert Camus
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I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance…
— William Shakespeare
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Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly…
— John Ashbery
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the…
— William Shakespeare
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
— Haruki Murakami
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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.
— Billy Sunday
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Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were…
— Anais Nin
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When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of…
— David Almond
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How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the…
— Dean Karnazes
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And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape:…
— Stephen Fry
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I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door…
— Richard Kadrey
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I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep…
— Annie Dillard
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Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
— Douglas Adams
Who Wrote These Puff Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 144 Puff Quotes, led by these top contributors: