Top 41 Rebus Quotes

#1. If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.
[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,
(Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

Ovid

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#2. Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Ovid

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#3. Modus in rebus there must be an end of things.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#4. It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.

Jonathan Lethem

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#5. There is no need of words; believe facts.
[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

Ovid

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#6. Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

Ian Rankin

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#7. Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.

Paulo Coelho

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#8. The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

Alain De Botton

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#9. Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.

Victor Hugo

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#10. The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

Gregory David Roberts

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#11. There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring.
-Inspector John Rebus

Ian Rankin

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#12. Enough about body language," said Kira. "I want to practice the link so hit me."
"Hitting you won't make the link easier to detect."
"It's an expression," said Kira.

Dan Wells

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#13. Accessible design is good design.

Steve Ballmer

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#14. partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus's current partner, museum curator

Ian Rankin

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#15. Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part.

Ken Stott

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#16. In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
[Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Plautus

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#17. In all things there is a kind of law of cycles.
[Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]

Tacitus

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#18. And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

Horace

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#19. It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

David Schwimmer

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#20. This is one experiment guaranteed to produce unexpected fireballs from time to time. Expect them.

Theodore Gray

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#21. She's whacked with happy, which kind of infects anyone within a ten-foot radius." She stuffed salad in her mouth to get it over with. "Like an airborne virus."
"God, you romantic fool. No wonder I adore you.

J.D. Robb

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#22. Use that ugly thing you keep inside your helm.

George R R Martin

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#23. Rebus remembered that the premature withdrawal of the penis during intercourse for contraceptive reasons was often referred to as 'getting off at Haymarket.

Ian Rankin

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#24. It's easier if you do a handstand,' commented Rebus. 'What is?' 'Talking out of your arse.

Ian Rankin

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#25. The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded.

Milan Kundera

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#26. Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

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#27. Yes, Siobhan ?" Rebus said by way of an answer.
"Page wants you inside the tent rather than out."
"Is that even possible ?"
"You'd be acting in a consultative capicity."
"Like Sherlock Holmes ? Would I need invoices & stuff ? And a housekeeper and a sidekick ?

Ian Rankin

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#28. I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

Emily Dickinson

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#29. Without shame, without conscience.

Chris Galford

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#30. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#31. Rebus drank his coffee and felt his head spin. He was feeling like the detective in a cheap thriller, and wished that he could turn to the last page and stop all his confusion, all the death and the madness and the spinning in his ears.

Ian Rankin

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#32. John Rebus ~ he tried to walk through the isles (of the book shop) without focusing. If he focused he would become interested and if he became interested he would buy. He already had over fifty unread books at home, piled next to his bed

Ian Rankin

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#33. With cities, it is as if with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.

Italo Calvino

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#34. Rebus lifted a Guardian

Ian Rankin

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#35. So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

Jim Lee

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#36. If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

Zhuangzi

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#37. Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

Mark Billingham

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#38. There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was.
No idea.
The breed, then ?
Mongrel.
And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.

Ian Rankin

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#39. Bravery in not the absence of fear

Thabiso Monkoe

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#40. It was dark, so I couldn't make out much of her face, but she had brilliant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun altogether.

Kiera Cass

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#41. Rebus reminded himself to stop praying. Perhaps if he stopped praying, God would take the hint and stop being such a bastard to one of his few believers on this near-godforsaken planet.

Ian Rankin

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