I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
People don't change. The world carries on spinning inexorably around but people don't spin with it. They dig their heels into the shifting sand and cling on for dear life.
My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905
He's such a dear, Mr. Garnet. A beautiful, pure, bred Persian. He has taken prizes." "He's always taking something - generally food.
leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.
Dear God, if I made it through this alive and conscious, my name deserved to be added to some X-rated category in the Guinness Book of World Records or something. -Emma
Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--
When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life.
You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.
The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.
Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.
Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!
You poor dear! Imagine having to wear Mark’s trousers! He’s a lovely lad, but I wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone. God only knows who’s been in them!
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.
In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined.
Please, dear brother, do much more with that Bible of yours besides carry it for luck. It will bring you no such luck. But if opened, it will bring you life.
