Best Dainty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.”

Life Life Is Choices Cold Green Plant Ruins Cells Meals Ivy Lone Right Choices Dainty

Book:The Pickwick Papers

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them...are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill.”

Men Way Two Evil Women Numbers Nice Proud Devil Constant Foolish Wiser Council Rumor Careless Wanton Wavering Dregs Dainty

Author:John Aylmer

“Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.”

Literature Sweet Lovely Melancholy Dainty

Book:The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one

Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one

“I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.”

Littles Age Dainty

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”

Literature Leadership Society Command Sheep Flocks Dainty

Book:The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

Source: The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by mr. Motteux. Ozell

“Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.”

Behavior Ridiculous Innocence Desirable Dainty

Book:Complete Stories

Source: Complete Stories