Top 100 Quotes About Fond
#1. If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#2. He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.
Agatha Christie
#3. I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
Dianne Wiest
#4. Nothing," I said. "I'm just ... " I couldn't finish the sentence, didn't know how to. "I'm just very, very fond of you.
John Green
#5. Full Frame is where I had the first showing of my first film, 'Street Fight.' I have a fond memory of pacing around outside the theater, nervously trying to keep from throwing up. It's a magical festival, well curated, with a warm and generous spirit.
Marshall Curry
#6. The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.
Mason Cooley
#7. Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish.
L.M. Montgomery
#8. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.
Jean Cocteau
#9. Then I'd tell him how fond I am of basketball, which isn't a total lie because I have a real appreciation for boys in shorts.
E. Van Lowe
#10. The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.
Teck Foo Check
#11. I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. - DANIEL HILL, COFOUNDER OF THINKING MACHINES CORP.
Michio Kaku
#12. Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
Johann Martin Usteri
#13. (Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words
Sam Kean
#14. {Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
Louisa May Alcott
#15. Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.
Lucy Larcom
#16. A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside; "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
Brillat-Savarin
#17. That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.
Estelle Maskame
#18. Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
#19. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
#20. Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way.
Christopher Isherwood
#21. That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this ... why? Because you're fond of helping others?"
"I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#22. The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.
Elizabeth Kostova
#23. A child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. As a child he was fond of hanging cats and then burying them with ceremony.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
Lydia M. Child
#27. Poison is a nasty habit.' Kymopoleia waved her hand and the murky clouds dissipated. 'Secondhand poison can kill a person, you know.'
Jason wasn't too fond of firsthand poison either, but he decided not to mention that.
Rick Riordan
#28. Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
Robert Burns
#29. I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Keith Carter
#30. Great. They fucked with my punctuation?" "Pam says you're overly fond of semicolons.
M. Pierce
#31. I was never fond of this boyfriend-girlfriend game. Outsmart me, make me feel challenged and I can walk with you forever but to act like love smitten puppies in love is not my thing.
Parul Wadhwa
#32. They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!
Lewis Carroll
#33. You have to stay safe, Scar. Maybe it's your bits in a dress and maybe it's just you, but I'm awful fond of something in there. So don't get killed.
A.C. Gaughen
#34. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.
Margaret Atwood
#35. Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!
Edward Young
#36. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?
Yuval Noah Harari
#37. My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#38. Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.
Winston Graham
#39. It was a good thing Ridge was mighty fond of Tug or he'd probably have killed him by now.
As it was, it had been touch and go for a little while that morning. But killing your lover on Christmas morning was so ... so ... heterosexual.
Josh Lanyon
#40. Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise.
George R R Martin
#41. I'm not particularly fond of the Hamptons.
Leven Rambin
#42. Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.
Judith Henry Wall
#43. I like dogs considerably more than I like humans. That doesn't make me antihuman; there are plenty of humans I'm very fond of. But generally speaking, if I simultaneously meet a new human and a new dog, I'm going to like the dog more. I'm certainly going to trust the dog more.
David Rosenfelt
#44. Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.
Terry Deary
#45. Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.
L.M. Montgomery
#46. 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
#47. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Oliver Goldsmith
#48. I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
Stendhal
#49. I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
Jennifer Haigh
#50. There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
Tony Hale
#51. They do not doubt their presence here, these students. They believe they should be here, they have earned it and thay are paying for it. Au fond, they have bought us all. It is the key to America's greatness, this hubris,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#52. I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
Confucius
#53. Vampires are fond of their games. But the games that They play are different than the variants that I'm familiar with. The rules were made to be bent, broken, shattered - and somebody always gets hurt.
Always.
Nenia Campbell
#54. Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. I'm also very fond of a light business jet, so I'd like to get it before it's too late.
Morgan Freeman
#56. It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.
Trudi Canavan
#57. Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
Edna Ferber
#58. I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.
Robert Mankoff
#59. My cooking spoon,
My magic wand,
Of this dish,
You will be fond.
The Silver Elves
#60. I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
Jackie Collins
#61. He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,
only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.
Victor Hugo
#62. We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#63. Nowadays we are fond of literal translations ... That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past ... They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original.
Jorge Luis Borges
#64. Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.
Dave Barry
#65. I do have very deep, fond memories of my family in Mexico City, but I also remember feeling funny for not speaking English - I was basically an immigrant. But I picked up the language fast and soon I knew that I wanted to be a writer.
Louis C.K.
#66. Little things like time and generations don't matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other's company.
Ari Berk
#67. People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash
#68. I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.
Mae Whitman
#69. As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Elizabeth I
#70. I was never particularly fond of my voice.
David Bowie
#71. It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.
Robert E.Lee
#72. Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.
Cathleen Falsani
#73. Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.
Josh Lanyon
#74. I'm not fond of a tradition that requires people to open the door for strangers. Or for kids to take candy from strangers.
Megan Erickson
#75. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius
#76. If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.
Ashly Lorenzana
#77. The lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern?
David Sedaris
#78. Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
William Hazlitt
#79. I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so much. Sometimes shooting is really difficult because you wake up early and you're always hurrying. And sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. I'm here and there.
Bai Ling
#80. I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.
Kirby Larson
#81. The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.
Daniel Silva
#82. Stone was fond of the sound bullets made. She was born in war, and lulled by a tune burrowed into her brain that she knew so well.
R.R. Washburn
#84. Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.
Rocco DiSpirito
#85. United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We're not too fond of luggage either.
David Letterman
#86. If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.
Eric Frank Russell
#87. whiskey. The chiefs were "exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made maney Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesom." Clark
Stephen E. Ambrose
#88. I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model.
Steven Bauer
#89. Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#90. I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed my name to motherfucker.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#91. Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#92. If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
Heinrich Heine
#93. June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers;
In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,
In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,
Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.
Lucy Larcom
#94. I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
R.L. LaFevers
#95. Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.
Alden Bell
#96. People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
Ogden Nash
#97. As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty.
Louisa May Alcott
#98. God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.
Max Lucado
#99. If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
Isaac Newton
#100. A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
