Whimsical Quotes

46 Whimsical quotes by 44 unique authors

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing… — Nick Hornby
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring. — Rohinton Mistry
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his… — Andre Breton
Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important… — Marisha Pessl
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one… — Donna Tartt
Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers.… — Brandon Mull
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. — Mary Oliver
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and… — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north. — Karen Marie Moning
Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable. — William Stone
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel… — Jim Lee
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. — Harriet Van Horne
I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had… — Ginnifer Goodwin
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical — French Proverb
To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a… — Tom C. Clark
I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. — Roger McGough
It was just a whimsical idea that escalated when so many crazy ladies took it up. — Rudi Gernreich
Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. — Sherlock Holmes

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