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  • Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?

    Should   Dear   Wretched  
    Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.162, Vintage
  • Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

    Sweet   Air   Swim  
    Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.456
  • One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.

    Sorry   Mean   People  
  • My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

    Girl   Dear   Permanent  
  • Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

    Running   Clever   Unique  
    Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

    Animal   Land   Dear Lord  
  • Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

  • The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".

  • Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

    Hate   Character   Men  
  • Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

  • But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

    Girl   Jesus   Children  
  • I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

    Art   Needs   Dear God  
  • Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

  • conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling.

    Baby   Moving   Rocks  
    Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry (1945). “The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield”
  • The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

    Change   Prayer   Rain  
  • A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.

  • Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

    Song   Names   Knowing  
  • Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.

    God   Dear Lord   Soul  
    Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406
  • And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?

    Love You   Heart   Agony  
  • Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

    Rats   Today   Dolls  
  • Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.5406, Delphi Classics
  • Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

    Beauty   Art   Dear God  
  • Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

    Brother   Wife   Scary  
  • Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

    Friends   Should   Dear  
    Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.142
  • But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

    Believe   Passion   Dark  
    Truman Capote (1955). “Other voices, other rooms”, Modern Library
  • My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

    Heart   Soul   Crow  
  • Even though we didn't actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called 'Dear Elaine,' which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I'd written.

    Song   Time   Moving  
  • Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

    Doors   Careers   Roles  
  • until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

    London   Able   Forget  
    Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.7, Penguin
  • They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

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