Colonels Quote by Irvin S. Cobb Download Open image “You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.” — Irvin S. Cobb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Colonels Hate Loving him Whole
“Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said. "He once made a general cry." "No." "I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that.… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
“The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“I do not think the Colonel will approve of your engaging the enemy,” Ivo said. Cinderella pointed her head skyward. “I agree. But Friedrich… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? — Richard S. Ewell Copy Share Image
No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague, and here and there an ash or a sumac burning red, like a hectic spot, where the first frosts already had set the marks of… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
“By now the moon was well down. Over the tree tops they had seen her cruise across the heavens to strike on a reef of jagged clouds, and now she foundered among them in the semblance of a ruined galleon, the sails lost overboard, the belly-shaped hull punctured; and just above her there swung a single red star, like a… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel.” Harry found himself rendered speechless. “I’m reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now.” “Silent?” Harry echoed. “There is… — Julia Quinn Copy Share
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West. — Eric McCormack Copy Share
Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy? — Richard S. Ewell Copy Share Image
In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said,… — John Green Copy Share Image
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