Dear Quotations | Page 5

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, / What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

Dear Miss .I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants ... keep your manuscript for your s

Dear Haley, did you hear the one about . . .

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its powerTill all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.

The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.

You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely

This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea Whose rocky shore beats back the envi

Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!

So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

Until I dicover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

The WILL is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.

Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.