"Young people are careless of their virginity; one……" — Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not."
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18 Quotes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner has 18 quotes on this site.
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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw,…
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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
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Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance…
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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London life was very full and exciting [...] But in London there would be no greenhouse with a glossy tank,…
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their…
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The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might…
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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More Careless Quotes
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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