Best Stout Quotes

57 Stout quotes by 51 unique authors

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man… — Maria Jeritza
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless… — Charles Spurgeon
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape… — Ralph P. Martin
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… — Walt Whitman
At first sin was as fragile as a spiders thread, and finally as stout as a ship's hawser; sin arrived as a passerby, next lingered… — Israel Shenker
James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona. — Kurt Busch
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part… — Augustus William Hare
In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig. — Dave Schulthise
Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted. — Tibullus
A stout heart breaks bad luck. — Miguel de Cervantes
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and… — Plutarch
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all… — Cennino Cennini
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a… — Marie de France
Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable. — Jonathan Weiner
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and… — Daniel Radcliffe
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind… — Milan Kundera
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives — Anne Sexton
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it… — Aristophanes
Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and… — Walt Whitman
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who… — Grace Paley

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