Dainties Quotes

#1. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

George Herbert

#3. Without good company all dainties
Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted.

Philip Massinger

#4. I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to sort of brand myself. I made a pretty conscious effort to be a different type of person.

Seth

#5. Beware of little expenses; A small leak will sink a great ship, as Poor Richard says; and again, Who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Christopher Buckley

#7. A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Jonathan Swift

#8. When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

Della Reese

#10. Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

Bryn Terfel

#11. Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca The Younger

#12. Here we supped ... , having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

John Evelyn

#13. I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

Anna Kendrick

#14. Actually, I think I'm more into sleek-looking suits right now." I ran my fingers over the arm of his tuxedo and gave him an appraising stare. "You know, sort of that James Bond cool look.

Janette Rallison

#15. The hundred flavors of rare dainties Are no more once you've eaten your fill. You may accumulate private savings But not in your stomach private hoardings!

Wu Cheng'en

#16. Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

Todd Rundgren

#17. That's for me to know, and for you to find out.

Ally Carter

#18. Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts ... (Act IV, Scene II)

William Shakespeare

#19. My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.

John Buchan

#20. There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

Jeff Lindsay

#21. If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don't get a moral law unless there's a moral law giver.

Frank Turek

#22. Blast it, I fancy him.

Finley Aaron

#23. Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed.

Maria V. Snyder

#24. A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

Louise Penny