Quaint

Famous quotes containing the word quaint:

“‘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 (1840–1928)

“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,
A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl
Make him the quaint great figure that men love,
The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)