Quaint Quotes

60 Quaint quotes by 57 unique authors

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not… — Margaret Atwood
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand… — Emily Dickinson
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish… — Christopher Hitchens
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping,… — Edgar Allan Poe
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate… — Robertson Davies
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it… — George Bernard Shaw
The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and… — Ruzwana Bashir
You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much,… — Adam McKay
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. — Elliott Abrams
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In… — Cynthia Ozick
I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and… — Hannah Kearney
Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national… — Giles Foden
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated… — Henry Giroux
Medieval justice was a quaint thing. — Frederick Pollock
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly… — Stephen Sondheim
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to… — James Whistler
Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. — Mark Davis
The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's. — Bryan Miller
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the… — Unknown Author
Not that I ever tried to be a saint. Im the type that they classify as quaint. — Beegie Adair

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