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Quotes About Nearest

As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor—and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. 'It's no good trying to get Bertie to take the slightest interest' is more or less the slogan, and I'm bound to say I'm all for it. A quiet life is what I like.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing
~ Dan Brown
I examined the portraits nearest to me but couldn't get past the sensation that here was the same man over and over, crouched in old boxes, readying himself to spit on my plate.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.
~ David Foster Wallace
yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way:
~ William Shakespeare
and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.
~ Wodehouse
However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to the human heart.
~ Honore de Balzac
My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.
~ John Nettles
How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?
~ Denis Diderot
Next thing I know you've run off to Paris and thrown yourself under the nearest Frenchman-
~ Unknown