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“I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it…

— Rex Stout

“he asked, in a more tentative tone, “What’s the”

— John le Carré

“Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Tone is the hardest part of saying no.”

— Jonathan Price

“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.”

— Anne Enright

“He asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren't”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The question is not what the writer meant, but what he conveyed to those who heard or read.”

— Clement Gatley

The tone is which the question is asked ... the answer should also be given in that tone

— AJ

“The one who asks questions does not lose his way.”

— Polly Shulman

“He just asked questions, especially to begin a conversation, as if he knew nothing. In the course of the discussion he would generally get…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Even something as simple as ending a sentence with the tone of a question mark rather than a period can diminish a person’s authority…

— Susan C. Young

“didn’t like this line of questioning, because it was too much like the questions I asked myself at night, alone in my narrow girlhood…

— Melanie Benjamin