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Quotes About Dear

It was awkward to be called dear by a person you felt like calling insufferable bitch.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I grant this Food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords; who, as they have already devoured most of the Parents, seem to have the best Title to the Children.
~ Jonathan Swift
I do not love you as I loved The loves I have loved, As I may love others: I know you are not beautiful As some I loved were beautiful, As others may be: I do not hold your counsel dear As I've held others, As I still hold some: And yet There is no truth but you, No love but you-- And Oh! there is no pain But you and me.
~ A. Norman Jeffares
Respected Dear All ON EARTH !
~ PRP PN Prabhur Nepalese
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
~ Joanna Southcott
He had been so dear to me that for my entire childhood the mere thought that one day he could no longer exist brought all of nature, both outside and inside of me, to a standstill.—But actually, under the influence of ever deeper initiation, nature eventually became more expressive, touching and moving to me with every loss that I suffered as if it brought me ever closer to its heart.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
dreams are madness, my dear. It's things that happen in the waking world, while one is asleep, that one would be glad to know the meaning of.
~ Joseph Conrad
Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said. "Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial." "They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped.
~ Judith McNaught
My dear man,' Philippa said. 'It seems to me that you have no spirit left but the spirit of resentment.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?
~ Douglas Adams
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
~ Douglas Adams
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
~ Aeschylus
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder!
~ Agatha Christie
My dear," he said, "so many people are disgusting about so many things.
~ Agatha Christie
And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence.
~ Agatha Christie
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
~ Alain de Botton
A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.
~ Alan Davies
For every loyalty, whether to self or community, does impose a blindness, and each love does threaten to blur vision, as few can bear to see truth if it harm that which is dear to us.
~ Rachel Kadish
Of all yogins, only he who rests his unwavering mind and love in me is dear to me.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men.
~ Hosni Mubarak
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
~ William Wordsworth
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
~ Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
~ William Alexander Percy
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
~ Bram Stoker