Daresay Quotes

#1. One does tend to assume that life must be far easier for others than it ever is for oneself," he said. "I suspect it rarely is. I daresay life was not meant to be easy.

Mary Balogh

#2. I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

Tony Curtis

#3. Oh, I daresay they're all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months," Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later

David Grann

#5. I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes of one's own than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#7. daresay you haven't had much practice,' said

Lewis Carroll

#8. The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

Christina Stead

#9. If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him.

Sharon Kay Penman

#10. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Bertrand Russell

#11. I daresay people have liked murderers," said Tuppence very reasonably. "It's like swindlers and confidence tricksmen who always look so honest and seem so honest. I daresay murderers all seem very nice and particularly softhearted. That sort of thing.

Agatha Christie

#12. Ah, well ... hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.

Susan Kay

#13. Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years!" "You can't think how deeply flattered I am!" she assured him. "I daresay my head would be quite turned if I didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory.

Georgette Heyer

#14. By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I'd manage a nunnery for £500!'

'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn't a nunnery.'

Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.

J. Storer Clouston

#15. I daresay some would never get their eyes opened if it were not for a violent shock from the consequences of their own actions

George Eliot

#16. Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me.
Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

George Eliot

#17. Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?"
"Quite ... liberating, actually."
"I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes."
"I agree," both men said at once.
Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.

Lorraine Heath

#18. You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'
Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

Martha Gellhorn

#20. Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

George Mikes

#21. He's [Jesus] the most fascinating character in history, really - the character who's made more difference to the world than anyone since him. I daresay that Muslims would say Muhammad was that character, but I think Jesus had a sort of 600-year start on him.

Philip Pullman

#22. Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Henri Poincare

#23. I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

Robert Plant

#24. I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Iris Murdoch

#25. By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

J.K. Rowling

#26. Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.

Bob Barr

#27. If you took half the energy you devote to being witty and channeled it into your work, I daresay you could be one of the greatest scholars of our age.

Brandon Sanderson

#28. Oh, all right. Tell me what you heard and have done. I haven't got all night."
"I daresay you haven't. It's nearly five in the morning.

Ashlyn Macnamara

#29. it is much the same, I daresay, wherever and whenever men desire power and the use of power on others.

Elizabeth Moon

#30. I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.

Joe Abercrombie

#31. Unlike the summer sun,
my life has started to fade
Forsaken by the memories of thee,
which once shone like the jade.
My eyes elude the moist fear,
and are now as dry as hay
Melancholy cries are all I hear,
'Will you be there?' I daresay!

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#32. Then she said she wondered if she really loved me or not. I, of course, couldn't enlighten her as to that. And, after another silence, she murmured something about my being "a queer fellow." "And I daresay that's why I love you," she added. "But maybe that's why one day I'll come to hate you.

Albert Camus

#33. So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that
a pale stone desert given over to charwomen & decorators: a few bears, a mandrill, & a fox or two
all in the desolation of depression.

Virginia Woolf

#34. I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?

Anne Perry

#35. You wear your armor even to dinner, Lady Wilhelmina?"
"Of course I wear armor. I am sitting with a pirate, a mercenary, an adventurer, and a bounder. If a shot is not fired tonight, I daresay that your reputations are nothing but lies.

Meljean Brook

#36. JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.

Oscar Wilde

#37. What if you never meet him?
Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.
Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.

L.M. Montgomery

#38. But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. But I daresay, a lass can't think in a straight line w'out her tea. Sit for a minute. The laird will wait.

Patricia Strefling

#40. The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose."
"I daresay it's an improvement," said Will. "You weren't much to look at before, and at least the horns are dramatic.

Cassandra Clare

#41. But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#42. I only speak the truth. I quite despise myself for these desires that run amok. But run amok they do. I daresay for the rest of my life I will dream of being fondled by you.

Sherry Thomas

#43. Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.

Dodie Smith

#44. A storm is coming in and I feared you would be frightened." "I love storms." "We'll see," he said. "I daresay you'll need my strong arms around you to make you feel safe.

Lynn Kurland

#45. They faced each other. 'I'm going to enjoy this,'Melancholia said.
'I daresay I'm not.

Derek Landy

#46. Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#47. I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.

Lorraine Heath

#48. Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Georgette Heyer

#49. Let me out," Harry said again.
"No," Dumbledore repeated.
"If you don't - if you keep me in here - if you don't let me-"
"By all means continue destroying my possessions," said Dumbledore. "I daresay I have too many.

J.K. Rowling

#50. Charles H. Spurgeon, in his wry way, once declared, "I daresay the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness."[25]

David Jeremiah

#51. You think the whole thing was an act? Was a fake?" I shake my head ... "I daresay it was real in the moment," she says, measuring her words. "But men are different than women. Their emotions are capricious.

Gayle Forman

#52. The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.

Elizabeth Bowen

#53. We'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.

Julianne Donaldson

#54. During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

H.L. Mencken

#55. I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone's cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the deliverer in him or her and is trying to prevent them from entering the world.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#56. Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

Ruth Pitter

#57. If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."
I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.

Susan Dennard

#59. I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

Georgette Heyer

#60. I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it.

Agatha Christie

#61. Caterham in a tone of mild remonstrance. You shouldn't really. I daresay some of them richly deserve it - but all the same it will lead to trouble.

Agatha Christie

#62. I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.

Hilary Mantel

#63. I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.

Michael Talbot