Quoth Quotes

#1. Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
"It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Garth Nix

#2. Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.

Claire North

#3. Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Walter Scott

#4. Entropy
The Disintegrating Integration of
Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration
Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of
Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing
Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit
Orangutans of Science
Study Ignorance of What
The Cows Already Know.

Ubiquitous Bubba

#5. Quoth the Ocean, Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

Jean Ingelow

#6. Other friends have flown before - On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. And pray, who are you?"
Said the Violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise,
At his wonderful size,
In her eyeglass of dew.
"I, madam," quoth he,
"Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
Of honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me?

John B. Tabb

#8. A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Plutarch

#9. Quoth the Raven," said a glitching voice from the phone.

"Nevermore," said the man.

"Then the game has started

Rao Umar Javed

#10. - My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs. Wadman.
- Then he will never, quoth my father, be able to lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.

Laurence Sterne

#11. When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

Eugene Field

#12. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. The chamber-maid had left no ******* *** under the bed: - Cannot you contrive, master, quoth Susannah, lifting up the sash with one hand, as she spoke, and helping me up into the window seat with the other, - cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to **** *** ** *** ******?

Laurence Sterne

#14. "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

Charles Dickens

#15. Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. I like subordination, quoth my uncle Toby...

Laurence Sterne

#17. What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

John Bunyan

#18. And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

William Shakespeare

#19. By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

Constance Savery

#21. I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, Matter-o'-money.

John Godfrey Saxe

#22. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Miguel De Cervantes

#23. Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides ... , " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.

Gail Carriger

#24. A grave and dark-clad company, quoth Goodman Brown.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. I am in a ridiculous humour,' quoth Eugene; 'I am a ridiculous fellow. Everything is ridiculous. Come along!

Charles Dickens

#26. And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

Robert Southey

#27. Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.

H. Rider Haggard

#28. What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Sorry - Quoth. It's the language of storms. They're great poets, some of them.

Scott Hawkins

#30. It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better ...

Howard Pyle

#31. Quoth the doorbell with its silence, no comment at this time.

Kurt Vonnegut

#32. Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#33. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe

#34. Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.
Not I, quoth my uncle.
- But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.
No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

Laurence Sterne