Rare Quotes

1409 Rare quotes by 1067 unique authors

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word… — Mark Twain
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. — Baruch Spinoza
Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that… — Sylvia Plath
Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still! — Oscar Wilde
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and… — Thomas Wolfe
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
...you're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind — Nick Drake
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves… — James A. Baldwin
It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is. — Peter S. Beagle
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare. — John Irving
He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with… — Kim Edwards
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James A. Baldwin
Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least… — Edith Wharton
And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death. — Terry Pratchett
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. — Ray Bradbury
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. — William Shakespeare
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — Virginia C. Andrews
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. — Friedrich Nietzsche
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other… — Rainer Maria Rilke
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,… — James Russell Lowell
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at… — Albert Camus

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