Remark Quotes

175 quotes by 152 authors

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. — Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,… — Willa Cather
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help… — Charlie Chaplin
[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to… — William Wilson Morgan
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all… — George Eliot
There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize… — Mel Gibson
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made… — Fritz Zwicky
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of… — Martin Lewis Perl
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The… — Isaac Todhunter
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. — Prince Charles
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her… — Robert Burns
A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. — Miguel de Cervantes

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