Remark Quotes

175 quotes by 152 authors

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate — Kazuo Ishiguro
I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18... — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives. — Idries Shah
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell
The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended… — Jimmy Carter
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what… — H. L. Mencken
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. — Mark Twain
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldnâ€™t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at… — George Mikes
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History… — Richard Owen
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. — Leslie Charteris
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times.… — Harold MacMillan
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with… — Mark Twain
Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman,… — Howard Dean
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from… — Joshua Ferris
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face. — Carol Anshaw
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis

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