Darling Quotes - Page 2

• Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Inspiration, Ethos, Groups

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• if you'e going to do something, darling, then do it all the way.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Way, Ifs

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• Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

  Oliver Herford

  Sex, Talking, Opposites

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• I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

  Eartha Kitt

  Men, Land, Giving

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• I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Thinking, Fans, Cruise

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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  Beck

  Mother, Art, Nature

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• Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business.

  Robert Stack

  Finest

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• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  Marie Windsor

  Devil, Littles, Busy

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• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  Patrick Macnee

  Writing, Play, Skills

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• Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

  Wild Bill Hickok

  Names, Wife, Swim

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• I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

  Artie Lange

  Might, Critics, Has Beens

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Luck, Looks

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• Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that! And the nearly six years! O God, I thank you for those years. If I never had met you, I would now not have all the sorrow; but I would have missed these riches -- and do these years not abundantly balance the lonely years I face without you?

  Diet Eman

  Lonely, Crazy, Thinking

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• Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, Bitter, Instinct

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.89, Penguin

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• Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Love You, Thinking

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• Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

  Gerald Kersh

  War, Shining, Navy

  Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company

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• Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Nurse

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.177

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• Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

  Katherine Dunn

  Life, Baby, Believe

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jul 23, 2015

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Pride, Devil

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

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• Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Long, Say Anything, Boring

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• Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, World

  Song: Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Confidence, Mother, Son

  "A Childhood Recollection from Dichtung und Wahrheit" (1917)

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• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Diana Vreeland

  Tables, Dinner, Poor

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• I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

  John Milius

  Want, Critics, Has Beens

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

  Jethro Tull

  Cups, Raises

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