Best Quite Lines
6696 Quite quotes by 4056 unique authors
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.'…
— Margaret Cho
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just…
— Agatha Christie
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You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so…
— Amy Chua
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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill
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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
— Winston Churchill
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A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series.…
— John Bates Clark
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
— Beverly Cleary
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that…
— John Cleese
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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
— John Cleese
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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas…
— John Cleese
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I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm…
— John Cleese
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I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
— Nick Clegg
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Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly…
— Nick Clegg
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens…
— Nick Clegg
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I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense…
— George Clooney
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Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of…
— Chuck Close
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often…
— Harlan Coben
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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is…
— John Abizaid
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I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in…
— Tori Amos
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I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
— Tori Amos
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone…
— Ian Anderson
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