Quote Genre: Absent

Unknown – ‘Out of sight out of mind.’…

‘Out of sight out of mind.’

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Mark Twain – ‘I have criticized absent peo…

‘I have criticized absent people so often and then discovered to my humiliation that I was talking with their relatives that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.’

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Frederick W. Thomas – ‘T is said that absence conqu…

‘T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! Ive tried alas! its power to prove But thou art not forgot.’

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William Cowper – ‘Absence from whom we love is…

‘Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.’

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Comte de Bussy-Rabutin – ‘Absence is to love what wind…

‘Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small it enkindles the great.’

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Ashleigh Brilliant – ‘Sometimes I need what only y…

‘Sometimes I need what only you can provide your absence.’

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Elizabeth Bowen – ‘Absence blots people out. We…

‘Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.’

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Helen Rowland – ‘Failing to be there when a m…

‘Failing to be there when a man wants her is a womans greatest sin except to be there when he doesnt want her.’

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Nicholas Rowe – ‘The joy of meeting pays the …

‘The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?’

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Charles Reade – ‘The absent are like children…

‘The absent are like children helpless to defend themselves.’

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