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  • Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods -- Countee Cullen
  • 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
  • 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
  • One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways. -- Richard Rohr
  • A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. -- Eoin Colfer
  • An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. -- Jonathan Franzen
  • To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. -- Mark Twain
  • Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts. -- Albert Einstein
  • Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger. -- Francis Beaumont
  • Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 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
  • Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language. -- Ilana Mercer
  • Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself. -- A. J. P. Taylor
  • And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them.... -- Michel de Montaigne
  • Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea. -- Mark Twain
  • The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. -- James Wolcott
  • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint. -- Doris Lessing
  • Medieval justice was a quaint thing. -- Frederick Pollock
  • In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. -- Graydon Carter
  • 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
  • The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold. -- Jay Weatherill
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American. -- Nick Robinson
  • Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things. -- Seth Shostak
  • You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point. -- Adam McKay
  • This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned. -- Douglas Alexander
  • 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
  • An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade. -- Meghan Daum
  • 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 often tell you what they feel. -- Rosemary Mahoney
  • The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. -- James Wolcott
  • The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to be a more nuanced way for audiences to connect with and shape presidential debates. -- Ruzwana Bashir
  • We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. -- Mitch Daniels
  • Holland seems like a quaint toy. -- Marian Hooper Adams
  • A quaint conceit, don't you think? -- Mercedes Lackey
  • I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies! -- Kent Beck
  • Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched. -- John Gummer
  • The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits. -- William Shakespeare
  • The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. -- Phil Donahue
  • Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. -- David Brin
  • Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride. -- Vachel Lindsay
  • Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens. -- Thomas Hughes
  • The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. -- Frank Mankiewicz
  • In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions. -- Alberto Gonzales
  • The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's -- Bryan Miller
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  • I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. -- Gore Vidal
  • Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself. -- Phyllis McGinley
  • My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way. -- SZA
  • It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others. -- Washington Allston
  • And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. -- Lord Byron
  • The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen. -- Christiane Amanpour
  • The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians. -- Eric Corley
  • The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. -- Cody Lundin
  • While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit. -- Thomas Otway
  • Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace. -- Moliere
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