Cosy Quotes

• The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

  Michael Flanders

  Jobs, Comforting, Purpose

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• It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Rain, World

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

  Doris Lessing

  Love Is, Littles, Sometimes

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• There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

  Kurt Cobain

  Flower, Patterns, Comfortable

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• I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sweet, Husband, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (1998). “Hardy: Selected Poems”, p.96, Penguin

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• There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Pieces, Littles

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.18, Del Rey

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• If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

  Idries Shah

  Teacher, Convince Us, Different

  Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.5, Octagon Press Ltd

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• We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

  Gordon Brown

  Lying, Moving, Europe

  "Brown vows to keep national control" by Ian Black and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

  Herman Melville

  Morning, Couple, Lying

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.58, Velvet Element Books

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• Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

  Mike Curran

  Art, Kitsch, Cold

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• What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

  Alfred Adler

  Small Rooms, Tea, Persons

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• I like cosy, intimate houses.

  Tori Amos

  House, Intimate

  "Tori Amos sings for her supper". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

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• I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Night, Storm, Blanket

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2356, e-artnow

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• British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

  Nigel Slater

  Sweet, Cake, Hug

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• [Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Would Be, World, Want

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Air, Sky, Needs

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• The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

  Glen Duncan

  Grief, Mean, Wrath

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• How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hero, Different, World

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• I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

  James Joyce

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

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• Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Home, Cities, Feelings

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Funny, Humorous, Cigarette Smoke

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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• She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

  Glen Duncan

  Brother, Grief, Mean

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• The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  War, Hands, Baths

  "Uncle Fred in the Springtime". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1939.

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• What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

  Russell Hoban

  Pain, Smoking, Want

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

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