What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
Jane Austen

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
Gale Norton

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Christopher Dodd

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
Marguerite Gardiner

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
Samuel Hoffenstein

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Peter Bichsel

Years are not important, my dear.
Faye Dunaway

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
Marguerite Gardiner

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
Maria Callas

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.
Miriam Hopkins

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
Daisy Ashford

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
Harvey Keitel

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason