Quaint English Quotes & Sayings

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through. — S.I. Hayakawa

The author of the quaint old English classic, The Cloud of Unknowing, teaches us how to do this. Lift up thine heart unto God with a meek stirring of love; and mean Himself, and none of His goods. And thereto, look thee loath to think on aught but God Himself. So that nought work in thy wit, nor in thy will, but only God Himself. This is the work of the soul that most pleaseth God. — A.W. Tozer

But when the crowd caught sight of the murderers, with their escort of blue-coated highway patrol-men, it fell silent, as though amazed to find them humanly shaped. — Truman Capote

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Slightly less time than it takes one woman to make one life, they managed to snuff out a million and a half lives. — Paullina Simons

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language. — Ilana Mercer

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen

Oh the grave!
the grave!
It buries every error
covers every defect
extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him! — Washington Irving

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life. — Paulo Coelho

I'll still love you," I said softly. "I'll still love you in a week, in a month, and in three years. I'll still love you for the rest of my life. You did that to me, and you can't change it. No matter where you go or what you do, I will still love you. — Kate Stewart

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. — H.P. Lovecraft

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think. — Marlene Dietrich

While Tabitha admitted to herself that Mike Long's ministrations had cured the child, she was not, as Mike had predicted, above accepting sole credit from the happy mother. — Anonymous