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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

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives. — Phil Donahue

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

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched. — John Gummer

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

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. — Mark Davis

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. — Jonathan Franzen

How quaint that life seemed now, like something you could fit inside a snow globe. — Laini Taylor

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us. — Gore Vidal

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 wonders
At out quaint spirits. — William Shakespeare

Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride. — Vachel Lindsay

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout — Harper Lee

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

I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley — House

A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man, — Daphne Du Bois

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

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology. — Mark Twain

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint. — Graydon Carter

Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs. — Bauvard

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

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds. — Albert Ellis

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. — Kirsty Gallacher