Dear Reader Quotes

#1. It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#3. Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.

Virginia Woolf

#4. Now, don't get all weepy on me dear reader.No chin-quivering or nose-sniveling, either. These pages do not need to be all soggy with your mucus.

James Patterson

#5. It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy - or in our physics.

Carlo Rovelli

#6. Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly

#7. God is glorified by our serving Him in our proper vocations. Take care, dear reader, that you do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your occupation, and take care you do not dishonour your profession while in it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Alasdair Gray

#10. Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

Joseph P. Farrell

#11. Well, what would you have done, dear reader? I told him everything. And yeah, all right, reader, I married him too, but not that evening or even that year.

Amy Rae Durreson

#12. My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

Miranda Hart

#13. Dear reader. Dear, dear reader. Here we find ourselves, you and me, engaged in a book in which someone has just exclaimed, in all seriousness, 'The sentient lobsters!'
How did we end up here? Did we make some mistake along the way?

M T Anderson

#14. Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Francisco De Quevedo

#15. But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.

Adam Gidwitz

#16. Dear Reader, please forgive me if I have wasted your time.

Leonard Cohen

#17. Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

Fanny Fern

#18. Dear Reader, he switched human bodies before I made him a vampire, worry no more. It has nothing to do with this story.

Anne Rice

#19. The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Don DeLillo

#20. Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

Kate DiCamillo

#21. Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, "The faithful are mirrors to one another." MATHNAWI I, 1319, 1328

Rumi

#22. Wherever you are, I will be happy as long as I'm with you." August 2009 Dear Reader: For twelve books, I've written about the types of evil men and women commit against their fellow human

Allison Brennan

#23. Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#24. But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. To conclude, dear Reader, the world of men is a noisy, testosterone-laden swirling vortex of bullshit.

Charles J. Orlando

#26. I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.

Scott McCloud

#27. A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.

Julia Quinn

#28. You, who reach out to me...
You move me, like no other...
I smile, not because I write...
But because you recognize my unorthodox methods and still wish to embrace me, not only on my good days but on my worst.
((Hugs)) dear reader...dearest new friends!

Eri Nelson

#29. For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.

Joss Sheldon

#30. Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#31. However, I'm here to tell you dear reader that there is always more than meets the eye.

Isabella Kruger

#32. My advice to you, dear reader, is to eat well and eat frequently. Our time here is pretty short. It's filled with disappointments and drama, and food can make it better.

Jim Gaffigan

#33. The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo

#34. Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted.

Vikram Seth

#35. Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Lemony Snicket

#36. Dear friend, You are not a freak. You are wanted. You are necessary. You are the only you there is. Don't be afraid to leave the castle. It's a great big world out there. Love, a fellow reader

Jennifer Niven

#37. You could move.'
"Dear Abby" responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

Abigail Van Buren

#38. Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them.

Maria Stoica

#39. Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.

Andrea Barrett

#40. A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody ... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.

Christine Schutt