Quotes of: Quaint Keyword

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't oft...

Rosemary Mahoney

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

Frederick Pollock

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the young men and women—and they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the elder generation, who are the funniest old dear...

Tom Brown at Oxford

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Graydon Carter

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

The Eternity Code

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

P. J. O'Rourke

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.

Kirsty Gallacher

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

Mark Davis

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Marianne Williamson

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Henry Giroux

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

Stephen Sondheim

Love has a glow, like a neon light having sex with a pack of hi-lighters, only not quite as quaint.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Elliott Abrams

I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

Hannah Kearney

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Christopher Hitchens

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

Polly Bergen

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.

Nicole Anderson

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

Giles Foden