Wayward Quotes

55 Wayward quotes by 45 unique authors

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add… — Neil Gaiman
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of… — Lynn Margulis
If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew… — Malcolm Turnbull
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me. — Kate Winslet
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid. — William Shakespeare
The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot,… — Louisa May Alcott
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard… — Anne Lamott
Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn
If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would… — Dave Barry
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be.… — Cassandra Clare
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than… — William Shakespeare
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was… — Robin McKinley
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by… — Anchee Min
Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single… — Kami Garcia
A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. — Kami Garcia
Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then.… — Kami Garcia
I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew — Kami Garcia
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he… — Khaled Hosseini
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No… — David Lehman
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
The only was forward for the froward is wayward. Life deserve Obedience.... — Rotimi

Who Wrote These Wayward Quotes

45 authors contributed a total of 55 Wayward Quotes, led by these top contributors: