His Back Quotes
246 His Back quotes by 206 unique authors
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand…
— William Shakespeare
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He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to…
— Nora Roberts
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
— Raymond Chandler
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Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long…
— Banksy
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And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with…
— Jeanne Birdsall
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I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
— Samuel Johnson
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what…
— Joseph Heller
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How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some…
— Dorianne Laux
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Other men puffed, snorted, and splashed. George passed through the ocean with the silent dignity of a torpedo. Other men swallowed water, here a mouthful,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she…
— Astrid Lindgren
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So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little…
— A A Milne
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Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the…
— C.S. Lewis
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He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you…
— Cassandra Clare
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Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?…
— Roger Ebert
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A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was---"Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just…
— Sarah Dessen
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Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order…
— Thomas Merton
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I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men…
— Robert E. Howard
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You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and…
— Joyce Maynard
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This was something you had to work through on you own," Jason said. "Besides, I knew you'd do the right thing." "Oh, right," I said.…
— Meg Cabot
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
— Annie Dillard
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It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger…
— Cornelia Funke
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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his…
— Alice Sebold
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Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan…
— Alistair Maclean
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And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These His Back Quotes
206 authors contributed a total of 246 His Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: