Utter Quotes
526 quotes by 447 authors
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone…
— Ayn Rand
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in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
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At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would…
— Nicole Krauss
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I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new…
— Yahtzee Croshaw
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,†I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence,…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise…
— Keri Arthur
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
— John Galsworthy
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I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he…
— Sarah MacLean
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He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as…
— John Eldredge
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the…
— D. H. Lawrence
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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
— William Shakespeare
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Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch.…
— Robert Creeley
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If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter…
— Bruce Sterling
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Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than…
— Jenny Lawson
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Independent women must expect more of themselves, since neither men nor other more conventionally domesticated women will hope for anything, or expect any result other…
— A. S. Byatt
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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take…
— William H. Gass
Who Wrote These Utter Quotes
447 authors contributed a total of 526 Utter Quotes, led by these top contributors: