Cosy Quotes:

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2356, e-artnow

topic: Night, Storm, Cosy

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

- Alfred Adler

topic: Small Rooms, Tea, Cosy

I like cosy, intimate houses.

- Tori Amos

source: "Tori Amos sings for her supper". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

topic: House, Intimate, Cosy

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

- Michael Flanders

topic: Jobs, Comforting, Purpose, Veneer, Half Truth

It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

- J. D. Salinger

source: J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

topic: Nice, Rain, World, Cosy

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

- Doris Lessing

topic: Love Is, Littles, Sometimes, Cosy

There's nothing more comfortable than a cosy flower pattern.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Flower, Cosy

I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

- Thomas Hardy

topic: Sweet, Husband, Fate, Cosy, Young Wife

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.18, Del Rey

topic: Nice, Pieces, Littles, Maverick, Cosy

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

- Idries Shah

topic: Teacher, Different, Path, Convince Us, Cosy

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal State.

- Gordon Brown

topic: Lying, Moving, Europe, Fiscal Policy, Economic Success

She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

- Adeline Yen Mah

topic: Pain, Cancer, Farewell, Morphine, Cosy

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

- Herman Melville

topic: Morning, Couple, Lying, Honeymoon, Old Couple

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

- Mike Curran

topic: Art, Kitsch, Cold, Largesse, Dullness

British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

- Nigel Slater

topic: Sweet, Cake, Hug, Cosy

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

- Bernie Ecclestone

source: Source: www.topgear.com

topic: Would Be, World, Want, Cosy

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

- Alan Jay Lerner

topic: Air, Sky, Needs, Cosy

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

- Glen Duncan

topic: Grief, Mean, Wrath, Lestat, Cosy

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

- Orhan Pamuk

topic: Hero, Different, World, Cosy

I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

topic: Mean, Night, Thinking, Tithe, Cosy

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Home, Cities, Feelings, Sophistication, Cosy

What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

- Russell Hoban

source: Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.21, A&C Black

topic: Pain, Smoking, Want, Killing Myself, Cigarette Smoke

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

- Glen Duncan

topic: Brother, Grief, Mean, Lestat, Cosy

The cosy glow which had been enveloping the Duke became shot through by a sudden chill. It was as if he had been luxuriating in a warm shower bath, and some hidden hand had turned on the cold tap.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: "Uncle Fred in the Springtime". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1939.

topic: War, Hands, Baths, Cosy

We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.

- Tom Hodgkinson

topic: Lunch, Needs, Doe, Loafers, Chained

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

- Mickey Rourke

topic: Actors, Months, Shut Up, Pointers, Cosy

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

- Scarlett Thomas

source: Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.6, Canongate Books

topic: Animal, People, Looks, Cosy, Dangerous World

I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.

- Justine Larbalestier

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Hate, Book, White, Cosy, Blanche

What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.159, e-artnow

topic: Song, Nice, Boys, Unending, Limousines