Remark Quotes

175 quotes by 152 authors

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking… — Bryce Courtenay
Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other… — Terry Pratchett
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. — Anne Stuart
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the… — Susanna Kaysen
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse… — George MacDonald
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis
Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with… — Douglas Adams
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr. — Lewis Carroll
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where… — Harlan Ellison
If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark. — Deanna Raybourn
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must… — E. M. Forster
In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided we should "see… — Deb Caletti
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson… — Stephen Ambrose
...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for… — Milan Kundera
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. — Alice Sebold
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers… — Elizabeth Zimmermann

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