Top 18 Chortling Quotes
#1. It started to rain. Fat, heavy drops of summer rain - the kind that always struck her as vaguely lewd and debauched. Little potbellied drunkards, those summer raindrops, chortling on their way to earth and crashing open with glee.
Tessa Dare
#2. It was a stirring piece of bravado but Powell deftly set it aside. "My wife would understand perfectly your loyalty as a general's wife," he said, "but I tell you there is no honour in throwing away lives when the outcome is already determined.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#3. If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
Andrew Mason
#4. Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
Colin Wilson
#5. Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#6. There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.
Joel Salatin
#7. What's so funny?" Bella mumbled.
"I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again.
"I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed.
"S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory," I countered. "Just blow in her ear."
Get some new jokes, "Rosalie snapped.
Stephenie Meyer
#8. Would they retreat or move forward? Could they do this thing they were on the verge of doing? Did they have it in them to make a wrong decision just because it felt right?
Emily Giffin
#9. Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price so long as the hated friars never returned to the archipelago. The land would then be redistributed among the poor Filipino farmers.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#10. I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.
James Walsh
#11. Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Love is the line that draws the shape of God.
Bleeding Hearts (Demimonde #1)
Ash Krafton
#13. If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.
John Kessel
#14. Dolphins love each other so romantically, so playfully, so completely, that it is obvious that they are sent by God to teach us by their example to do the same.
Louis De Bernieres
#15. Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two.
Rumi
#16. I know who you are, Damianos,' said Laurent.
C.S. Pacat
#17. I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.
Drew Brees
#18. A fish on a leash, he said, chortling. There's a sight I never saw before.
George R R Martin