Quaint

Famous quotes containing the word quaint:

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

“Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we’ll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“‘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)