A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

— Oprah Winfrey

“I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.”

— Jane Austen

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it ,and it…

— Rosalynn Carter

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

— Anonymous

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to…

— Robert Frost

“I addressed a remark to him which he acknowledged simply by closing and opening his eyes, making me feel that, the next time I…

— Anthony Powell

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

— Charles Hodge

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark…

— Jane Austen

Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago,…

— Lindsay Duncan

“The profundity of that remark reduces me to silence.”

— Mary Elgin

“People’s lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may…

— Alexander McCall Smith

One day, the infielders were having a pretty bad time and were making some bad throws to me at first base. After digging a…

— Johnny Mize

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth…

— Paul Di Filippo

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something…

— Samuel Johnson