Top 290 Dear Quotes

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They’re my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
Mark Ruffalo
Paul Ryan, along with Daniel Webster, is a totally, deeply revered and respected individual in this Congress. And I love both of them. Both of them would have made good speakers. Both of them would make a good pallbearer for a man like me. They’re that dear to me.
Trent Franks
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare
Dear, never forget one little point. It’s my business. You just work here.
Elizabeth Arden
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson
We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.
Ellen G. White
My integrity is something I hold dear.
Luvvie Ajayi
Peace is something very dear. If you’ve been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.
Benjamin Netanyahu
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear – things like hamburgers and hot dogs – were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
Alton Brown
DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.
Allu Arjun
My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will.
Jimmy Carl Black
I think all The Shield boys will tell you we hold The Shield very dear to our hearts. That was our vehicle to where we are now, and to get out of developmental and out of that hot Tampa warehouse.
Roman Reigns
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a p

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Gavyn Davies
In all of my possessions, in all moments, whether hard or happy, I was accompanied by my dear wife, Lilly, who supported me wholeheartedly.
Ariel Sharon
The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.
Angelina Jolie
I’ve been going bald since I was about 17. I’m still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder – should I get a wig?
Ben Miller
When I was playing Gandalf, I didn’t think, ‘Oh my dear, I’m playing a 7,000 year old wizard,’ because I’ve never met one, and I don’t know what they’re like.
Ian Mckellen
To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.
Susan Vreeland
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.
Bernadette Peters
John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season – and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear.
Megan Mullally
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
Christine Baranski
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan’s father in a film.
Russell Baker
‘Dr Who’ is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn’t realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people’s hearts.
Bonnie Langford
The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.
Sam Brownback
‘Liv and Maddie’ is very near and dear to my heart. I’m very proud of it.
Dove Cameron
I don’t think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
Brittany Murphy
It’s called ‘Dear White People,’ but really, it’s about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right?
Justin Simien
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
Peter O’Toole
I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that I went to high school with that didn’t go to college eventually wound up in Vietnam, and I noticed that they came home different. I was in Ohio during the Vietnam War era.
Joe Walsh
My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he’s near and dear.
Michael Connelly
One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ did this for me.
LaChanze
I think ‘Rockstar’ is more dear to me than any of my other films.
Imtiaz Ali
I think ‘Dear White People,’ the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It’s always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show’s more militant characters can’t see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Even though we didn’t actually record it as the Move I had already written a song called ‘Dear Elaine’, which I subsequently put on the Boulders album. I thought at the time that was probably the best song I’d written.
Roy Wood
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.
Roy Horn
I find I really put careful consideration into my friendships with women because the relationships can be so sensitive. Let’s face it: some women can be down right catty. This is what makes me cautious, but also what makes my true friendships so dear to me.
Camille Grammer
I love Phil Mickelson. He’s a dear friend.
Mack Brown
When I phoned up and said, ‘Mum, I’m doing a 52-date national tour with Eddie Izzard,’ she said ‘That’s nice, dear. How are you?’
Dominic Holland
Ramesh Vinayakam is a maestro music composer and a dear friend, too.
M. Jayachandran
We footballers don’t address one another as ‘My dear.’
Karim Benzema
I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They’re so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.
Porter Robinson
I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain s

I had this one dear friend in college who was a chain smoker. His smoking habits led him to major health problems. That’s the time I remember telling him to let go. And after a point, he did listen to me and gave up smoking.
Rithvik Dhanjani
A whole generation is moving away from highly ritualistic practices into a more thinking, spiritual process. By spiritual, I don’t refer to a cult or a guru. In your heart, you continue to feel the presence of people who’ve been dear to you even after they’ve left.
Amala Akkineni
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
Rita Mae Brown
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me – a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI
It’s fairly easy to know when you’ve succeeded because you’re kind of hanging on for dear life. It’s such an unstoppable juggernaut; you’re trying to stay with your head above water because things are moving so fast.
Caterina Fake
We at the NRA embrace and hold dear what makes us uniquely American. Family, responsibility, patriotism, mutual respect, honesty, civic duty.
Wayne LaPierre
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
Dirk Benedict
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
John Philpot Curran
I always kept a diary – not a diary like, ‘Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!’ I’d just write.
Carrie Fisher
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller
People see the ‘Lil’ Wayne’ persona and think they know who he really is. My son’s father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.
Lauren London