Wistfully Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at…
— Alexander Smith
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around…
— William Carlos Williams
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The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
— Guillermo del Toro
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As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to…
— Stephen Holden
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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Talon glanced wistfully at his drink as he debated what should take priority. 'Coffee… Daimons… Coffee… Daimons…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. “Anyone else here feel like swooning?
— Richelle Mead
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The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I…
— Kim Harrison
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He’s so beautiful,†she said wistfully. “He’s like an angel.†“Yep,†I agreed flatly. “The one that fell.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
— Isaac Marion
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When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.
— Candace Bushnell
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he…
— Anne Fortier
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A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
— Isabel Yosito
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I cant tell a soul I love you though my heart begs me to. Every romantic song reminds me of you, and every time I…
— Nit
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That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Wistfully Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Wistfully Quotes as follows: