Top 52 Fonder Quotes
#1. Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#2. Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Elizabeth Ashley
#4. What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
Charlotte Lennox
#6. If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours.
Olivia Cunning
#7. I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.
Philippe Pinel
#8. The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
C.S. Lewis
#9. I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#10. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.
Greg Iles
#11. A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
William Hazlitt
#12. I'm fonder of you than anybody on earth. I couldn't tell you that in New York. It'd mean I was a faggot. That was what the Civil War was about. Abraham Lincoln was a faggot. He was in love with General Grant. So was Jefferson Davis. Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet.
Ernest Hemingway,
#13. I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing
yes,
I'm growing old.
John Godfrey Saxe
#15. When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...
John Muir
#16. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon.
Dashiell Hammett
#18. We are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#19. I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.
Ernest Dowson
#20. Absence makes the clitoris grow fonder.
Cassie Mae
#21. People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Bonnie Raitt
#23. I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
Sarah Waters
#24. We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
William Hazlitt
#25. Over the years I'd learned absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need.
Penny Reid
#26. It's crowded," she murmured as her eyes laughed into his.
"The longer we're in here..." His thighs brushed against hers as a toddler wiggled up to the glass. "The fonder I am of snakes.
Nora Roberts
#27. Absence might make the heart grow fonder,'
'I don't think that's possible ... You have no idea how much I love you.
Nicholas Sparks
#28. Whoever coined the phrase 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder,' was an idiot.
Absence makes a bitch go crazy.
Toni Aleo
#29. A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.
But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.
Ross Turner
#31. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
#32. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
Charles M. Schulz
#33. The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks.
Lin Yutang
#34. Sometimes absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.
A.J. Compton
#35. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.
Penny Reid
#36. Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.
David Wolpe
#37. One idealizes people when they're away, it's true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and when one sees them again one's often surprised that one saw anything in them at all.
W. Somerset Maugham
#38. Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
Stephen King
#40. Absence makes the dick grow fonder, isn't that what they say?
Tara Sivec
#42. Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
William Hazlitt
#44. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way.
Shay Dawkins
#45. You know what they say. Absence makes the heart grow fonder." "If my heart grows any fonder, it's going to hop out of my chest and into yours." She melted. She scooted up his body to kiss him. "That's the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me." "It sounds sort of fatal,
Olivia Cunning
#46. I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it's more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn't help when most of the time, when forced to reckon with the realities of things, you have your illusions occupying you.
Lauren Lola
#47. Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.
Amy Dickinson
#48. I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)
Dashiell Hammett
#49. People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.
Jenny Han
#50. Absence makes the heart grow frozen, not fonder.
Judith Viorst
#51. Believing in one's own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
Cindy Sherman
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