Expostulated Quotes

#1. Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said.
"Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial."
"They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped.

Judith McNaught

#2. But," expostulated Josiah Worthington. "But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he ... " This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

Quentin Crisp

#4. I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

#5. I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told me with disdain, 'This is a whole big bunch of unbelievable!

Edward Conlon

#6. Tearing the paper means you've stopped believing in the infinite possibilities of a square.

Tor Udall

#7. Here the world is all the world may be

Guy Gavriel Kay

#8. Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Sheffield

#9. The sacred jar of oil shall never run out.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Safe word is Pickle

Gabe

#11. Power from on high ... It is God inserting into you divine activity with
mightiness.

Smith Wigglesworth

#12. Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

Rufus Sewell

#14. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Neil Gaiman

#15. They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on, more than if they'd never done anything wrong.

Fredrik Backman

#16. On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

George A. Sheehan

#17. To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Claudius

#18. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.

Penelope Douglas

#19. The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Steele