Top 24 Quaintly Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Quaintly

#1. By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.

Annie Dillard

#2. Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Grover Norquist

#3. Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#4. Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Rachel Cusk

#5. Forget birds singing, bells ringing, brooks quaintly babbling over rocks. Choirs of angels could go hang. Her voice, even scratchy and weak, was the most beautiful thing he'd ever heard.

Tessa Dare

#6. In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

George Will

#7. There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

John Updike

#8. John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

John Oates

#10. Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.

Robert H. Jackson

#11. I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

Wallace Stegner

#13. Before taking his leave of a premises, the dustman would request either beer or a tip for his trouble, quaintly known in the trade as 'sparrows'.

Lee Jackson

#14. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

Gene Wolfe

#15. There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. No idea is a bad Idea. No dream is a bad dream. If your dream was good enough to have its good enough to do

Darrius Garrett

#17. Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

Daniel D. Maurer

#18. If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Megan Whalen Turner

#19. I hear he liked flowers pretty well."
"Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."
"Out, Brief Candle

Kurt Vonnegut