Gravely Quotes

#1. Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

John Terraine

#2. When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

Scott Belsky

#3. You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle
to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Lewis Carroll

#4. I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!"
"I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

Stephen King

#5. Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. "Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Lewis Carroll

#7. Never submit an idea or chapter to an editor or publisher, no matter how much he would like you to. Writing from the approved idea is (another) gravely serious time-waster. This is your story. Try and find out what your editor wants in advance, but then try and give it to him in one piece.

John Creasey

#8. In the solitude of my cell I have come to the bitter realisation that I have sinned gravely against humanity.

Martin Amis

#9. The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

Confucius

#10. Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#11. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

George Meredith

#12. When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!"
--from Prairie Grace when Georgia's father Thomas realizes gravely ill Gray Wolf has been left at their doorstep

Marilyn Bay Wentz

#13. Well, on the day I was born God was sick, gravely.

Cesar Vallejo

#14. Wat's tes-tees?" inquired a small voice. Jemmy had abandoned his rocks and was looking up at me in profound interest. "Er ... " I said. I glanced round the room in search of aid. "That's Latin for your balls, lad," Roger said gravely, suppressing a grin.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Do you believe in bobbed hair?" asked G. Reece in the same undertone.
"I think it's unmoral," affirmed Bernice gravely. "But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed'em or shock'em.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.

Jennifer Echols

#18. You're just lucky you got your bag back," said Cruz gravely.
Megan snorted," Cruz is more impressed with Gucci than he is with a supernatural being! "
"Honey," Cruz snapped, "Gucci is supernatural!

Derrolyn Anderson

#19. I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Lydia M. Child

#20. Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children. Yet, many of us in America stay far, far away from this topic. That in itself is a national scandal. Bad parenting is gravely harming this nation.

Bill O'Reilly

#21. He faced about and blessed gravely thrice the tower, the surrounding land and the awaking mountains.

James Joyce

#22. He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.

Margaret Weis

#23. Have you ever wanted to put on a Santa suit?"
"I have always wanted to do that," said Carter gravely.

Richelle Mead

#24. Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don't even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.

Gretel Ehrlich

#25. I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late ... ' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.

Patrick Rothfuss

#26. Merlin nodded gravely. Doing what is right is nearly always simple, Mr. Potter. But it is never easy.

G. Norman Lippert

#27. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Luis Walter Alvarez

#28. What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

Anthony De Mello

#29. Are you a devil?"
"I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. I thought you seemed like someone who might enjoy backgammon, said the kid, gravely mistaken.

Michael Chabon

#31. The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely.

Jackie Trippier Holt

#32. He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck. I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone's rifle ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#33. My name's Saint," I whispered gravely into the microphone. "Are you ready to confess your sins?

Rachel Van Dyken

#34. I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

Orson Scott Card

#35. # I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#36. I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.

William J. Clinton

#37. Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.

C.S. Lewis

#38. I went for him, shook him by the shoulders with nothing better to shout at him but 'Why? Why?'
He answered me gravely, 'It's true. But you must begin to think of *how*.

Rene Daumal

#39. What should I do?" I ask.
"You should have a really good excuse. And maybe you should cry
girls do that, right? And possibly be gravely injured. If she has to fix you, she might go easier on you.

Cynthia Hand

#40. King: "You're ... you're shit! You shitting, shitting shit!"
"Your Majesty," Durzo said gravely. "A man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.

Brent Weeks

#41. What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are ...
Beyond reproach, I said.
He nodded gravely. Impossible to tell whether or not he meant it.

Margaret Atwood

#42. Nash leans forward and cups my cheek with his hand. He cocks his head slightly as he considers me. Don't do that. Don't ever make it out like you're less. Because you'd be gravely mistaken.

M. Leighton

#43. Jessica," he said gravely. "I will be your champion,if you let me. If I have to take on the role of knight, I want to be yours. Let me be your protector.

Courtney Milan

#44. Toph looks at me. I nod gravely. In this world, in our new world, there will be rocking. We will pay tribute to musicmakers like Journey, particularly if this is Two-for-Tuesday, which means inevitably that one of the songs will be: Just a small-town girl ...

Dave Eggers

#45. But we were talking about me and my problems."
Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely.
"I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

Gail Carriger

#46. Do you love me?" I asked gravely.
The corners of his lips tugged up ever so slightly. "Love is such a mortal word

Cait Reynolds

#47. The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

Mark Twain

#48. I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you."
"Your name?"
"I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N
"
"What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand.
"Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch.

Sophie Kinsella

#49. "I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

F Scott Fitzgerald

#50. I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

Ingmar Bergman

#51. The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#52. Hail, Piper McLean," Chiron announced gravely, as if he were speaking at her funeral. "Daughter of Aphrodite, lady of the doves, goddess of love.

Rick Riordan

#53. There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#54. I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

G.A. Henty

#55. Life itself is an unsolved mystery, said the clergyman gravely.

Agatha Christie

#56. It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

W. Somerset Maugham

#57. Nolan nodded gravely. "Men. Good to meet you." As Beth walked through the door, she heard Grant whisper in wonder, "He called us men.

Cherise Sinclair

#58. Ouch!" Amy yelped, causing Hamilton to release her. "Sorry," she said, smiling as she rubbed her shoulder. "I'm just a little sore."
Madison nodded gravely. "Smart peole books are pretty heavy.

Clifford Riley

#59. Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

Charles Kennedy

#60. Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth ... will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Dickens

#61. It is, she considered gravely, a terribly dangerous world. She supposed it always had been, but she was only now really experiencing it.

S.D. Smith

#62. We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

P.G. Wodehouse

#63. Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.

Zoe Marriott

#64. You have no romance in your soul," Poppy told Harry at intermission. "Not in my soul, no," he replied gravely. "However, I have a great deal of it in other locations."
-Poppy & Harry

Lisa Kleypas

#65. She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.'

'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.

'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.

Alexandre Dumas

#66. She regards Ellie gravely. You know, you can't make someone love you again. No matter how much you might want it. Sometimes, unfortunately, the timing is simply ... off.

Jojo Moyes

#67. Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.

Thomas Pynchon

#68. [H]e looked at me gravely and asked, "Are you ready?"

"No," I said. "I'm pretty sure I've never been ready for anything that had to be prefaced with that question.

Mira Grant

#69. Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You

Kate Elliott

#70. I'm shocked," St. Vincent said gravely, "but I'll recover." Looking around them as if to ascertain that he wouldn't be overheard, he whispered conspiratorially, "I'm not really a gentleman, you know.

Lisa Kleypas

#71. Into that charm and the gloom and the deep silence Oth moved gravely; and a solemness came on his face as he entered the wood; for to go on quiet feet through the wood was the work of his life, and he came to it as men come to their heart's desire.

Lord Dunsany

#72. Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.'
'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#73. She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

Candice Millard

#74. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Pope John Paul II

#75. Whenever I am feeling blue, I like to go to the Balzar and watch a waiter gravely transfer a steak au poivre and its accompaniments from an oval platter to a plate, item by item. It reaffirms my faith in the sanity of superfluous civilization.

Adam Gopnik

#76. Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius's treatise against the Gnostics?" he asked in a low clear voice.
The young assistant looked gravely back. "Not for sale, I'm afraid," he said. "Nor, if it comes to that, the Gnostic treatises against St. Ignatius."
"Quite," Anthony answered.

Charles Williams

#77. Was that Clarke really in there somewhere? The Clarke who could look so gravely serious one moment and then burst into laughter the next? The girl who found everything on Earth miraculous, and kissed him as if he were the most incredible find of all?

Kass Morgan

#78. Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#79. When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

Darren Shan

#80. I had no interest in starting over again, but there are some people whom we grant the role of oracle in our lives and when they speak
rarely, gravely
we are well-advised to listen.

Ann Patchett

#81. The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of consciousness and conscience, and hence our actions.

Michael O'Brien

#82. He Looked down at her gravely. In many ways, we are the most perfect match. We see each other as we are, but neither of us views the other as broken.

Sylvain Reynard

#83. I don't mean to be rude - " he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.
"Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.

J.K. Rowling

#84. These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.

Aldous Huxley

#85. Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

James Thomas Fields

#86. I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.

Anthony Marra

#87. Your Majesty," Durzo said gravely. "A man of your stature's cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears." - Durzo Blint

Brent Weeks

#88. She looked at him gravely. You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

Lynn Kurland

#89. Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.

Arthur Mee

#90. It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.

Don DeLillo

#91. Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' ... he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.

Elmore Leonard

#92. Whosoever honours his own religion and condemns other religions, does so indeed through devotion to his own religion, thinking "I will glorify my own religion". But on the contrary, in so doing he injures his own religion more gravely

Anonymous

#93. We're individuals in time and space who are often gravely lost, and then miraculously, in art, found.

Anne Lamott

#94. Sir, the nation is tense," said Cliff gravely. " It is asking itself how it can possibly stand idly by drinking gourmet coffee when an entire race is about to be disassembled. It wants to Enjoy, yes, but it feels it won't be able to fully Enjoy until some other closure is reached.

George Saunders

#95. Mr. Valentine ... " "Yes, ma'am?" "You do think he'll follow me, don't you?" "Only to the ends of the earth," he said gravely. That drew a smile from her, and she turned to climb into the carriage.
- Poppy & Mr.Valentine

Lisa Kleypas

#96. It is indubitable that Carol Mardus was the mother of the baby left in Mrs. Valdon's vestibule and that she was gravely disquieted to learn that I knew it and could demonstrate it.

Rex Stout

#97. know,' said the Mouse. 'Of course,' the Dodo replied very gravely. 'What else have you got in your pocket?' he went

Lewis Carroll

#98. I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?

L.M. Montgomery

#99. So you traded up?" I asked, walking toward the car and opening the door. "Do you treat your relationships in the same way?"
"Yes," Ethan gravely said. "And I spent four hundred years shopping before I met you.

Chloe Neill

#100. I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous, but don't worry. I've done it before.

Robin Sloan