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Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
— Elliott Abrams
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
— Thomas Hughes
Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
— P. J. O'Rourke
An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.
— Jonathan Franzen
The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
— Eoin Colfer
Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wondersAt out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare
Let not young souls be smothered outBefore they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride. — Vachel Lindsay
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.
— David Brin
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
— Frederick Pollock
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
— Christopher Hitchens
A quaint conceit, don't you think?
— Mercedes Lackey
Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon.
— Alana Massey
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
— Frank Mankiewicz
Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,And sweet thyme true,
Primrose, first born child of Ver,
Merry Spring-time's harbinger. — Francis Beaumont
Holland seems like a quaint toy.
— Marian Hooper Adams
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
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
— Jay Weatherill
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
— Christiane Amanpour
Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.
— Albert Einstein
I have gone to Niagara-on-the-Lake. You know, Niagara Falls in Canada. It's this cute little quaint town, and it's just warm, and everyone is so nice.
— Nicole Anderson
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
— Kirsty Gallacher