 Please enjoy this extensive collection of wonderful quotes that The Grand Shrew has put together. We have love quotes, inspirational quotes and quotes on friendship and life. Animal quotes, quotes about men, women and food and drink. We've also found some moving quotes about human and animal loss. Be amazed by the rudeness of famous people - see invective category.Don't miss some of our favourite poetry extracts.
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 Quotations about Animal loss
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Rudyard Kipling |
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 Quotations about Women
It seemed to me that the desire to me to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron |
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 Quotations about Men
Naked from the back, Ellen decided Jack Conroy was more exciting than naked from the front. He was hairy. This man was not born, she thought. He was knitted by his grandmother on a cold day.
Isla Dewar - Women Talking Dirty |
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 Quotations about Love
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon |
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 Quotations about human loss
It's so curious; one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer....and everything collapses. Colette
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 Quotations about Life
Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding on to the sides.
Alice Thomas Ellis |
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 Poetry Quotations and Snippets
Two roads diverged in a wood and I -
I took the one less travelled by.
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken |
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 Quotations full of Invective ....and vented spleens!
His spirit is made of pap, his body of chewed string, and his heart a pumpkin fricasseed in snow. Attributed to Ninon L'Enclos referring to her lover, the son of Mme de S'vigne´. |
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Inspirational Quotations
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw |
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Quotations about Friendship
One soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle when asked, "What is a friend?" |
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 Quotations about Food and Drink
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again. My dear, how will you ever manage?
Marquise de S'vigne´
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Quotations about Animals and Birds
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat and the two will hover, inches above the ground.
John Frazer |
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