Quaint Quotes

60 quotes by 57 authors

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. — Alberto Gonzales
Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.… — Terry Pratchett
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of… — P.J. O'Rourke
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to… — Gore Vidal
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our… — Michel de Montaigne
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,… — John Jay Chapman
One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that… — Richard Rohr
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost… — Alain de Botton
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying… — Mitch Daniels
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. — Thomas Hardy
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. — Eoin Colfer
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… — Tom Stoppard
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals… — Sarah Vowell
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do… — Joyce Carol Oates
A quaint conceit, don't you think? — Mercedes Lackey
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating… — Tennessee Williams

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