Dear

Famous quotes containing the word dear:

    List, list, O list!
    If thou didst ever thy dear father love—
    ...
    Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
    ...
    Murder most foul, as in the best it is,
    But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
    When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
    One look I but gave which your dear eyes return’d with a look I
    shall never forget,
    One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach’d up as you lay on the ground,
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)