Top 100 Quotes About He Said

#1. He who has nothing - it has been said many times - has nothing to lose but his chains.

Pablo Neruda

#2. The Boy should watch where he's going," she
said.
"Rachel should not manifest in doorways," I
replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative."
"I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said.
"Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.

William Goldman

#6. Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean ... ' I took no offense.

Linda Wells

#7. Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

Fay Wray

#8. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.

Douglas Hulick

#9. The two-minute disparity prematurely aged Adam Parrish. He liked it when people knew how to do their jobs.
"Say something," Gansey said.
"That bell."
"Everything is terrible," agreed Gansey.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.

Amanda Carlson

#11. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

Rachel Nichols

#12. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. When Kami jumped over a style, he looked like he's never seen one before.
"I have never seen one before," Jared said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#14. The dragon lifted his head and regarded her with those eerie eyes. "The princess came," he said in the saddest tone she'd ever heard.

Megan Frampton

#15. Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said.

That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears.

Kathleen Grissom

#16. If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair.

Ford Madox Ford

#17. Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!

Charlotte Bronte

#18. He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it.

Nora Roberts

#19. I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

Bob Newhart

#20. If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them.

Brian Staveley

#21. You and Galileo," I said.
"Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said.

Robert B. Parker

#22. As they climbed into their saddles, Myron bowed his head and muttered a soft prayer.
"There," Hadrian told Royce, "we've got Maribor on our side. Now you can relax."
"Actually," Myron said sheepishly, "I was praying for the horses. But I will pray for you as well," he added hastily.

Michael J. Sullivan

#23. Well, then, happy news! Hakuna matata and all that," Ian said cheerily. "We'll rest and have a fine dining moment while we wait." He looked around at the various airport fast-food choices. "Well, er, we'll rest...

Peter Lerangis

#24. What, she's taken the hairs off her honeypot?" he said, horrified into uncharacteristic vulgarity.

Diana Gabaldon

#25. Doesn't he have any daughters?' Emma muttered.
'He has no use for them,' said Mark. 'They say he has girl children killed at birth.'
Emma couldn't prevent a flinch of anger. 'Just let me get close to him,' she whispered. 'I'll show him what use girls are.

Cassandra Clare

#26. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.

Yongsoo Park

#27. Why do you always look like you just rolled out of bed?'
'Because usually I have.' And the way he raised his eye-brow at me made me blush.
'Classy,' I said.

Michelle Hodkin

#28. The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures. When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, 'Uh, make the sidewalk lower?'

Jimmy Fallon

#29. Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.

John Shelby Spong

#30. He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. "You're black."
"I prefer canine-American," said Total.

James Patterson

#31. God, I'm scared,' he said, quietly. She almost said, 'Oh, stop. I hate scared people.

Elizabeth Strout

#32. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Tim O'Brien

#33. never to ask a Lapp how many reindeer he had. Such a question, he said, would be as tactless as to ask an American how large a bank balance he carries.

Carveth Wells

#34. I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war?

Kristin Hannah

#35. The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.

Jim Harrison

#36. But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer"
"I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice cooler full of arms in it,I havent seen it yet.Anyway he seems pretty since.

Cassandra Clare

#37. He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Michael Kinsley

#38. Isabelle," he said sharply. She sped up.

Cassandra Clare

#39. A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Levon Helm

#40. It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

Don DeLillo

#41. How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?"
"Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.

J.R. Ward

#42. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

J.C. Ryle

#43. There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'

Craig Kilborn

#44. You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Sarah Dessen

#45. ("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")

Joan Didion

#46. But you can't go back now? To that orderly, harmonious, intimate place?'
He thought about this, though there was no need to. 'That place doesn't exist anymore,' he said quietly.

Haruki Murakami

#47. He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.

Nicholas Evans

#48. Ebenezar blinked . Then he turned his face to me his expression clearly asking whether or not I was out of my damned mind .

"Wile E. Coyote" I said to him soberly . "Suuuuuuper Genius

Jim Butcher

#49. He got up and stalked out of the house, slamming the screen door.
My mother explained.
He has a gentle heart, she said. It is simply that he is homesick and such a large man.

William, Saroyan

#50. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.

Jim Butcher

#52. Is there anything I can say to convince you to stay out of this?" he pleaded, his voice taking on a softer tone.
I shook my head. "Of course not."
"I didn't think so," he said miserably.

Ada Adams

#53. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On

David McCullough

#54. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said.

John Green

#55. 'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'

Nellie Bly

#56. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson

#57. I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles
champions every one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#58. He knew you were a warrior. He called you a brute. He said you were like a dog that attacks a bull. You had no fear because you had no sense.

Bernard Cornwell

#59. How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe.

Donald Barthelme

#60. Warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said,

Marya Hornbacher

#61. Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.
'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled.

Gail Honeyman

#62. I'm sorry," he said remotely. "For what just happened between you and me." She

J.R. Ward

#63. He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'
Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either of those things.'
'But you don't love me as much as I love you,' he said. 'Which is what's made me this way.

Kristin Cashore

#64. but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

Lemony Snicket

#65. You're toying with one of my people,"
she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth.
"You never used to be cruel"
"I used to have a heart," he drawled "and then someone broke it.

Sylvia Day

#66. Ranger was grinning. "Somebody beat the shit out of this guy before he got shot."
"That would be me."I said.
"Babe,"Ranger said, the grin widening.

Janet Evanovich

#67. Fuck me," he said, running his hand through his hair in frustration.

"Gladly, bend over," she shot back.

Moxie North

#68. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#69. Will you accompany me in this dance?" he said, bowing and holding out his hand.
"No, thank you." Miri smiled.
The prince frowned and looked and the chief delegate as if for assistance.
Miri laughed self consciously. "I, uh, I was teasing.

Shannon Hale

#70. President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.

Jay Leno

#71. Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?

Toni Maguire

#72. I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!" ...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.

Julia Quinn

#73. Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

Christine Feehan

#74. The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!

Arthur Golden

#75. My father always said, he said, Do not peddle in the affairs of wizards ...

Terry Pratchett

#76. That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life. Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

Bill Maher

#77. He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

Nora Roberts

#78. How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#79. Let's toast," he said, eyes as cold as a January morning. "To a very unlikely, and very temporary, partnership.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#80. Kidding?" He asked; rolling the foreign word over in his mouth like he tasted something sour.
"Yeah, you know. Joking. Ha ha ha." I said.

Micalea Smeltzer

#81. Loved her?! I never even touched her," he said.

"That's the problem with men, Jack," she said, "you think that love has to start in the fingers.

Kevin Alyn Elders

#82. You're very presumptuous, you know," she said, but she smiled. He smiled right back. Confident. "You're very beautiful, you know." She

Robyn Carr

#83. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

W.C. Fields

#84. No," he said. "That's not magic, Lila. That's just murder.

V.E Schwab

#85. I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz.
"What are you doing?" I asked him.
"I'm letting you get used to the idea of me," he said idly. "I'm pretending to be harmless. Is it working?"
"Until you smile," ( ... )

Delilah S. Dawson

#86. Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said.

Odette Beane

#87. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.

Erik Larson

#88. Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

Alexandre Dumas

#89. I think you need to look in the mirror if you think that's gorgeous"
"Ha," Andrew said, grinning.
"We"re identical." Adam shook his head at his twin. "He's insulting both of us, you idiot

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#90. Travis walked in, and froze in the doorway. "Wow."
"You look amazing," he said as I slid on my heels.

Jamie McGuire

#91. He went like that," Spade said, "like a fist when you open your hand.

Dashiell Hammett

#92. Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Leonard Woolf

#93. I wanted to talk," he said.
"I don't want to talk," said Jared. "And I won't want to talk. Ever."
"Can we just - "
"Talk?" Jared asked. "All right, if you insist. Let's talk about the many definitions of the word no.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#94. What?' he said. I'm sure he heard me perfectly well, but like most deaf people he's got in the habit of saying 'what?' automatically to every conversational gambit - I notice myself doing it sometimes.

David Lodge

#95. He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference.

Donald Miller

#96. In his homilies, this old Jesuit always talked about desire, and how we were connected by our desires. He said the most basic human desire was the desire to be desired by one you desire.

Kate Klise

#97. I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#98. I'm not going to be part of this," said Leo. He opened his hand and dropped the flowers. Fragrant, obedient, they beheaded themselves on Saina's salvaged-wood floors.

Jade Chang

#99. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

John Yudkin

#100. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.

Joseph Fink

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