Tone Quotes

857 Tone quotes by 657 unique authors

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are… — Helen Fisher
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I… — John Oliver
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong. — John Ralston Saul
There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's… — Natasha Trethewey
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit… — Elwyn Brooks White
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise… — Emily Bronte
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more… — Lewis Carroll
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me. — Eric Clapton
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in… — Anne Rice
He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such… — Lewis Carroll
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy… — Edgar Allan Poe
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… — Jean Genet
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the… — Jack Kerouac
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,… — Victor Hugo
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. — David O. McKay
Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the… — Edith Wharton
Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones." "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… — Charlotte Bronte
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… — Sylvia Plath
Don't look at me in that tone of voice. — Dorothy Parker

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