Companionable Quotes

#1. I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

P.D. James

#3. The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy's drive. Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#4. Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Mark Doty

#6. Of all the evenings it is possible to spend, a companionable evening with friends is the best.

Amanda Grange

#7. When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

E.B. White

#9. With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where he inwardly hated, not hesitating to kiss whom he thought to kill.

Richard III Of England

#10. [On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it ...

Penelope Gilliatt

#11. Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

John Muir

#12. Editing is the most companionable form of education.

Ed Weeks

#13. It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Virginia Cary Hudson

#14. The books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.

Herman Melville

#15. There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.

Alan Bradley

#16. The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run

Ian McDonald

#17. You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

Noel Coward

#18. A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.

E.B. White

#19. They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

Scott Lynch

#20. They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.

Jodi Picoult

#21. People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.

George Monbiot

#22. They shared a small moment of bizarre, companionable silence -they boy who'd forgotten everything about his history, and the boy who'd never known it.

Cassandra Clare

#23. In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

Elizabeth Goudge

#24. No, no." I motion vaguely. "Relax. Don't look so ... guardlike." They drop formation at once, glancing at one another shamefaced. Hector draped an arm around my shoulder as if we were out for a companionable stroll. He leans down and says, "So. Horrible heat we've been having lately.

Rae Carson

#25. Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable.

Glenway Wescott

#26. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation ... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.

Gretchen Rubin

#28. There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

Arjuna Ranatunga

#29. The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

Rudolf Rocker

#30. I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

G.H. Hardy

#31. The internet makes everything not enough.

Alec Sulkin

#32. Very few of us are what we seem.

Agatha Christie

#33. I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

#34. I'm not a coward," I say. "I don't run." "Then walk." I

J.M. Darhower

#35. This wasn't good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words
they got cheaper, the more you had of them. It would feel good to come back and cut this when she had worked her way to something better.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. Quinn, you sound like a monologuing supervillain.

Penny Reid

#37. Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Javan

#38. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Alexander Steele