23 Quaint Quotes for You to Enjoy

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

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

Age Words Space Furniture Quaint Sitting Modern Nostalgic Tone Watching

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

Strive Something Civility Parliament Quaint Perhaps Always Uphold Should Notion

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

Three Year Every Paper Out Mail Put Quaint Discard Messages Than Efforts Grade Manage Personal Send Handwriting Legible Holiday Less Reason Each Now Each Year Actually Second Cards

Social media isn't as quaint as it was when I started my Livejournal back in high school. Franchesca Ramsey

School Social Media Back High High School Quaint Social Media Started

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

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

Beautiful Quaint Up Grew Which Village

AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers. Adam Lashinsky

'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

There seems to be an interest in connecting the history of the past to the present and asking whether things have really changed. Films like 'The Contender' and 'Bulworth' seem quaint compared with Trump! Rod Lurie

History Past Films Changed Seem Seems Quaint Like Contender Trump The History Of Whether Interest Asking Really Connecting Compared Things Present

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

You People Thought Ways Respects Tell Some Mysterious Had Feel Quaint Well Very Expected Often Place China Peaceful Image

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles. Allan Gurganus

Me Walls Old Brilliant Met Before Took Summer Ancient Visited Collector Cases New Quaint House She Calling Another Occupied Passionate Were His Aunt Lined Friend Shoe Full England Kent

My sister and I grew up all over India, in quaint little towns, especially in the north and the east. Moving every two years made me very outgoing and very adaptable. Shraddha Srinath

Me Made Sister Every East India Outgoing Over Quaint Towns Years Up Very North Grew Little Moving Two Adaptable

I used to be called a post-modern clown. But now, post-modernism is a quaint notion, too. Bill Irwin

Clown Too Quaint Notion Used Now

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

Nice Waterfall Parades All-American Above Through Quaint Town Come Got Were Falls Shop Ohio Popcorn Chagrin

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

Needs World Smart Presidential Way Nixon TV Obama More Shape Between New Quaint Looked Looks Audiences Debates Versus Antiquated Same Modern Candidates Format Romney Connect Even Kennedy Need

Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph. Laurent Baheux

Nature Me Noise Vision Picture Think Wild Photograph Disturb Atmosphere Gives Quaint Like Matches Does Fully Species