Sisterly Quotes

• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

  Ugo Betti

  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

  Cyril Cusack

  Acting, World, Brotherly

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• I have a sort of sisterly feeling toward him [Ben Affleck]. I want him to do well and grow up and be a happy person and a fully realized man.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Growing Up, Men, Feelings

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• What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Good Night, Sweet, Farewell

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• Be kind to thy sister. Not many may know the depths of true sisterly love.

  Margaret Ann Courtney

  Depth, May, Be Kind

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• Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

  Jane Bowles

  Love Is, This Life, Boon

  Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.416, Macmillan

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• I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

  Anthony Burgess

  Erotic, England, Felt

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• The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

  Dave Pelzer

  Laughter, Moving, Will To Survive

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• Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David, she waited to see where this one was going. "I won't be able to hold up my head in church." "Really? Oh, Shelley, I'm so sorry," Jaine said sweetly. "I didn't realize you have the dreaded Limp Neck disease. When were you diagnosed?

  Linda Howard

  Sorry, Eyebrows, Church

  Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mother, Gratitude, Devotion

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.50, Penguin

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• She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Memories, Reality

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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