Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

- Isabel Yosito

I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

- Imtiaz Ali

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

- Imelda Marcos

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

Bahrain is very dear to me.

- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Gale Norton

Knowledge is never too dear.

- Francis Walsingham

Years are not important, my dear.

- Faye Dunaway

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

- Freddie Mercury

It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

- Ferdinand Mount

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

- Eric San

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

- Duff Green

I still have some very dear friends from school, and we get together whenever possible.

- Dionne Warwick

I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.

- Chantal Akerman

The stage is near and dear to me.

- Bela Lugosi

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

- Alexander Dubcek

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

- Alan Zweibel