Top 100 Remarked Quotes
#1. Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.
Richelle Mead
#2. As the story goes, Albert Einstein's wife Elsa remarked, upon hearing that a telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was needed to determine the shape of space-time: Oh, my husband does this on the back of an old envelope.
Edward Frenkel
#3. The shadows. They never leave you. They keep dancing
around you a bit too loud in sunlight, and then keep a lingering
presence in moonlight. But always there. Our constant
companion", he remarked.
"Not true," Sheekha replied." They leave us in our darkest
hours.
Dixy Gandhi
#4. They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
L. Frank Baum
#5. Oliver opened the door of the carriage and found his puppets huddled together on the bench. He gestured for them to come closer. "Hurry," he hissed. "Unless you want to become as tiny as ants."
"Oliver, did you know that you have a rainbow on your head?" Andrew remarked.
Zeinab Alayan
#6. John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.
Edsger Dijkstra
#7. The Principia's reputation for unreadability spread faster than the book itself. A Cambridge student was said to have remarked, as the figure of its author passed by, "There goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor anybody else understands.
Anonymous
#8. The other night he took me to dinner. We were having a wonderful time when he remarked, "You can certainly tell the wives from the sweethearts."
I stopped licking the stream of butter dripping down my elbow and replied, "What kind of crack is that?
Erma Bombeck
#9. I don't even like fishing," I remarked, "with or without scrotums, particularly snagged ones.
David S. Atkinson
#10. They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#11. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Vernon Howard
#13. Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.
Horace
#14. Max Planck once remarked, Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Michio Kaku
#15. A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
Martin Luther
#16. Apparently," Vetinari remarked to Drumknott, "the pounding of the railway wagons will lead to immorality.
Terry Pratchett
#17. It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
Oliver Goldsmith
#18. I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."
Abraham Lincoln
#19. My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!
Gail Carriger
#20. There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart that dictates my decision.'
Ogden Nash
#21. It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.
Rollo May
#22. A pillar of strength, Daffy had once remarked, was a nice way of saying someone was terminally bossy,
Alan Bradley
#23. Isn't she gorgeous, Ken?"
"Too pretty for Thatch, that's for damn sure.," Ken remarked with a smurk. "Seriously, Cassie? Is he blackmailing you? Do we need to alert the authorities? Blink twice if he kidnapped you. Three times if you fear for you life.
Max Monroe
#24. Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, snarked.
Lewis Carroll
#25. Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, "the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.
Jason Louv
#26. Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#27. Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine
David Brainerd
#28. Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,' remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others.
Alain De Botton
#29. Wow," I remarked to an older man who
had just turned away from a group. "That's
what I call a birthday cake. You think
someone's going to jump out of that thing?"
"Hope not," he said in a gravelly voice.
"They might catch fire from all the candles.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. Virtue, as I have already remarked, is not hereditary, neither is it perpetual.
Thomas Paine
#31. I see nobody on the road,' said Alice. 'I only wish I had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. 'To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!
Lewis Carroll
#32. I ain't never known you to fight over a woman, Cardone," Clint remarked.
"This one I will."
-Clint & Lynx
Janelle Taylor
#33. Can't you stop by my tent on your way to the hospital and punch one of them in the nose for me?" he speculated aloud. "I've got four of them, and they're going to crowd me out of my tent altogether." "You know, something like that once happened to my whole tribe," Chief White Halfoat remarked
Joseph Heller
#34. As we walked past a quad bike chained to a farm gate, he remarked "It's such a pity how times have changed. You can't leave a piece of machinery out on the road any more." He seemed to have forgotten that he had just been describing a time when you couldn't leave you cattle out.
Rory Stewart
#35. Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time.
Blake Bailey
#36. This is a little too cozy, don't you think?" I remarked.
"Your absolutely right." He patted the drivers seat, "Come on, Spook. Three's a crowd." The dog jumped up onto the seat.
Mary Lindsey
#37. They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Henry Walter Bates
#38. Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
Joseph Epstein
#39. I am inclined to think
" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#40. Slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." The man sprang from
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.
Paul Schullery
#42. It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
Henry Fielding
#43. You really have a bad habit of falling," he remarked.
Falling for you, Amarissa thought.
Aishabella Sheikh
#44. You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,
that's all! Good night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#45. Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."8
Thomas S. Kuhn
#46. Right," said Kami, undaunted. "So a girl in my class called Amber Green, and our headmistress, Ms. Dollard, are both sorcerers. Amber's with Rob, but we could use Ms. Dollard."
"I never trusted Amber," Angela remarked darkly. "Only the evil are that enthusiastic about volleyball.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#47. Theodore Rex. Roosevelt was driven by ambition, idealism and vanity. As his daughter famously remarked: My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Margaret MacMillan
#48. Twee," the wallcreeper remarked. "Twee!
Nell Zink
#49. What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.
Gregory David Roberts
#50. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
Anthony Horowitz
#51. I feel like a movie star," Daphne said as the girls hurried downstairs. "You look like a mental patient," Sabrina remarked.
Michael Buckley
#52. Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly
Brigham Young
#53. Willpower and dedication are good words' Roland remarked 'There's a bad one, though, that means the same thing. That one is obsession
Stephen King
#54. I believe I may kill you before the season is out, Sarah
remarked in much the same tone she used when saying, I believe I
shall have lemonade instead of tea.
Julia Quinn
#55. I didn't know you could fry toast, I remarked, to which Kev replied that there wasn't a food he was aware of that couldn't be improved by frying.
Ransom Riggs
#56. Oh, my, it's awfully quiet back there," Jackal remarked after several miles had passed and nothing had happened. Of course, my blood brother took personal offence to peace and quiet, and I could practically hear the grin in his voice. "Are you two making out?
Julie Kagawa
#57. They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked.
'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!'
'Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.'
'Of course I love them,' I said ... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them.
Alan Bradley
#58. Nurse Angela, with her love of cats and orphans, once remarked of Homer Wells that the boy must adore the name she gave him because he fought so hard not to lose it.
John Irving
#59. I wouldn't be surprised if Ruggedo melted Tik-Tok in one of his furnaces and made copper pennies of him." "In that case, I would still keep going," remarked Tik-Tok, calmly. "Pennies do," said Betsy regretfully.
L. Frank Baum
#60. It is often remarked that nothing we do now will matter in a million years. But if that is true, then by the same token, nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now. In particular, it does not matter now that in million years nothing we do now will matter.
Thomas Nagel
#61. Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.
Dan Brown
#62. Dorothy's cooking was legendary. It had once been said that she could turn soil to cake. William, her husband, had remarked that he could achieve the reverse, earning himself a sharp smack with the rolling pin.
Jonathan Renshaw
#63. I have often remarked that it is hardest of all to live with people who are untruthful and insincere. I can endure anything except that.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
William Ralph Inge
#65. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#66. Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.
Diana Gabaldon
#67. You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
T.D. McKinney
#68. I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.
M.C. Escher
#69. Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.
Dale Carnegie
#70. A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.
Wendy Mass
#71. Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#72. He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear at the front door, shrug into his jacket, tuck in his shirt, go to step out, and then pause.
"He looks like he's about to sneeze," Stephanie remarked.
Derek Landy
#73. When the Carlton Club, A Conservative Party bastion in London, was badly damaged by bombs and Churchill remarked that he was surprised that no one had been killed, a Labor Party official replied, "The devil looks after his own.
Philip Seib
#74. Terror is so delicious," she remarked. "You're disappointingly predictable, Harmonia. All these years and you would still risk everything for him. Tsk, tsk.
Courtney Cole
#75. Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!"
You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
Georgette Heyer
#76. ...Be what you like'
'Some people, sir,' remarked Lamps, 'are sometimes what they don't like.'
'Nobody knows that better than I do,' sighed the other. 'I have been what I don't like, all my life.
Charles Dickens
#77. I feel like I'm a disappointment to mankind," he remarked woefully as he placed the shirt through my arms and began to pull it down over my breasts. "Someone this gorgeous should be on display in a museum.
Karina Halle
#78. I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life.
L.M. Montgomery
#79. The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
Aldous Huxley
#80. I had once remarked to Feely that, because of the oxygen, breathing fresh air was like breathing God, but she had slapped my face and told me I was being blasphemous.
Alan Bradley
#81. It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.
Margaret Fuller
#82. On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, What do you think of Predestination now?
Winston S. Churchill
#83. It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori
#84. I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
Christopher Hitchens
#85. As he drank, I remembered that there's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes
or so the Vicar had remarked to Father ...
Alan Bradley
#86. Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.
Brian Jacques
#87. I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.
Fisher Ames
#88. Hector had no virtue?" "Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one." "We all do," Aeneas remarked.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#89. If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee," Lady Astor once famously remarked to Winston Churchill. "If I were married to you," he replied, "I'd drink it.
Anonymous
#90. It is a rare beast that gets such a funeral," Father remarked, sweating and leaning on his spade. "Lucky cat."
Personally I think the cat would have been luckier had it lived. Then again, life for a stray, unwanted thing is not always pleasant, so perhaps Father was right after all.
Maryrose Wood
#91. He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." ...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#92. That sounded good," Daisy said with surprise.
"It sounded like a fish vomiting," Sarah said into the piano.
"A charming image," Honoria remarked.
"I don't think fish do vomit," Daisy remarked, "and if they did, I
don't think it would sound like -
Julia Quinn
#93. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has remained hidden from the eyes of others;
Nikolai Gogol
#94. The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#95. Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.
Frederick Lenz
#96. For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins," Conall remarked dryly, "we must thank the potato.
Edward Rutherfurd
#97. Pam," Issy attempted, voice high with fear. "I can tell you, from this side of the fence..you really need to calm down."
"I will shoot you in the face if you say one more word to me," I fumed.
"So noted."
"I am so glad that I am an only child," Coalhouse remarked quietly.
Lia Habel
#98. Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.
Edmund Morris
#99. One day he told me that he'd spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
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