1.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.
Rumi
2.
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
Samuel Beckett
3.
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
Mother Teresa
4.
Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
5.
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
Aphra Behn
7.
Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.
Roger Williams
10.
Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.
Gautama Buddha
11.
Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.
Maud Lindsay
12.
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Jasper Fforde
13.
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
Geoffrey Chaucer
14.
There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.
Big Daddy Kane
17.
Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
Emile Zola
18.
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Rabindranath Tagore
19.
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!
Rumi
20.
Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.
Dan John
21.
All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
22.
My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.
Rick Riordan
23.
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
James Whistler
24.
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
Sun Tzu
25.
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
Charles Olson
29.
[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.
Dorothy Parker
30.
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
31.
The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.
Annie Dillard
32.
To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
35.
And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.
Nicholas Sparks
36.
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
Han Suyin
38.
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
Jessamyn West
39.
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.
Pythagoras
40.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Rose Kennedy
42.
Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.
Charles M. Schulz
44.
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.
George MacDonald
45.
Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.
Pope Francis
46.
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Because every buck is dear to him.
Unknown
47.
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
Samuel Lover
48.
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.
Nicholas Sparks
50.
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
Tom Lehrer