Best Reply Quotes

#1. When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is, "Give until you are proud."

Paul Ireland

#2. Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.

Saru Singhal

#3. Silence is the best reply to a fool.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#4. The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Louis Nizer

#5. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

#6. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Euripides

#7. You don't need to explain. This is your house too-you can go where you want," I reply. I smile as best as I can. "Except my room, of course."
"Why, you'll stab me with a kitchen knife if I do?" she jokes as I set the knife down onto Oma March's bedside table.
"Maybe," I answer.

Jackson Pearce

#8. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.

Mark Twain

#9. The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.

Stephen King

#10. I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

Sophie Kinsella

#11. Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

Joe Hill

#12. I am on fire within.
There comes no murmur of reply.
What is it that will take away my sin,
And save me lest I die?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13. [N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. I love you," was his reply. "I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in
you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

V.C. Andrews

#15. I love you, babe." Warmth spread through him like sunshine in the morning. He had to stop grinning long enough to type a reply. "I love you back.

A.E. Via

#16. When you're at sea," Gwen would probably reply, "it's not food. It's fuel, for further exploits."
"So the exploit fuels the next exploit, and the next the next, and so on? Is there nothing more, nothing else?"
"Is there ever?

Daniel Handler

#17. Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

William Booth

#18. I wasn't entirely sure how to reply. Blow me and Screw you both seemed like strong contenders, but the peanut gallery in my head appeared to be favoring castration.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#19. Sometimes people ask me why am I so excited about what I do. My reply mostly is, You see one celebrity and get excited. I see several hundred thousand future celebrities, change makers, and world movers, everyday.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#20. Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

Richard Dawkins