Whilst Quotes

257 Whilst quotes by 186 unique authors

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… — Thomas de Quincey
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Baroness Orczy
Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants.… — Louise Rennison
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world… — Florence Nightingale
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber. — Mahatma Gandhi
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination… — Marquis de Sade
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans… — Louis de Bernieres
Enjoy yourself whilst you read! — Jacqueline Wilson
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The… — E. M. Forster
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the… — William Shakespeare
Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it,… — Laurence Sterne
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;… — Thomas Hardy
You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community… — Edmund Burke
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman
Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser,… — Douglas Adams
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake. — Michel de Montaigne
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit… — Ben Elton
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived… — George R. R. Martin
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured… — Steven Erikson
Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places,… — Steven Erikson

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