Top 29 Spouted Quotes
#1. Eleanor had bargained for their wedding present, the dragon-spouted teapot worth thousands and the cups to match, gold-leafed, scaly.
Kate Walbert
#2. My mind was speaking, but my vocal cords were silent. I exhaled in frustration. "Freezed," I finally spouted out. My thoughts froze, just like the rest of me.
Anonymous
#3. I have perceived much beauty
In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;
Heard music in the silentness of duty;
Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
Wilfred Owen
#4. People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.
Stephen Jay Gould
#5. [Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
Donal Henahan
#6. My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.
Eloisa James
#7. She glanced down at the ground and the inert form of her brother. "What happened to Travis?"
Mitch winced. "I hit him with the door after I tore it off. It was a total accident."
"Marry me," she spouted before she could stop herself.
Shelly Laurenston
#8. Everyone in the tribe believed in life after death and the spirit's ability to be reborn and live again in a new body. The undying soul was unquestioned. Did not the leaves fall off the tree and become part of the soil that nourished the tree which spouted new leaves?
M.J. Rose
#9. You two have to get along, or avoid each other," Burnett spouted out, as if fully aware of what had turned her eyes a light yellow. "No bloodshed."
Dells frowned. "You always take the joy out of things."
(della talking about chase)
C.C. Hunter
#10. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.
Susan Sontag
#11. They tried to kill me," he said, his brow furrowed as he glared at them. "You saw them!" "Yeah?" I spouted off. "They weren't very good at it!" (Trent and Rachel)
Kim Harrison
#12. I'm the prince and you're the princess and rescuing our friend is my job. Just ask Merlin!" Tedros yelled, practically a shriek - "Yes, now you've got it, boy," Merlin spouted, not looking as he trimmed his beard with a thorn. "Sound perfectly female now.
Soman Chainani
#13. Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it.
Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith.
Earl Lee
#14. Like it when she spouted off. I believe that's precisely what he's blamed for.
Ruthie Knox
#15. [She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#16. I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
Jeffrey Archer
#17. Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
Lactantius
#18. House is built by wisdom, and it is established by understanding;
Anonymous
#19. I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
Len G. Murray
#20. You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.
Duke Ellington
#21. There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
Cecil Parker
#22. Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
Philipp Meyer
#23. Our faith must grow strong enough to believe for the impossible because we believe in the God of the impossible, and with Him all things are possible.
Stormie O'martian
#24. While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
Jack Falahee
#26. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
Isaac Watts
#27. It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.
Brigitte Bardot
#28. Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
Buzz Aldrin
#29. A report in 2000 observed that among youth who have never been sent to a juvenile prison before, African Americans were more than six times as likely as whites to be sentenced to prison for identical crimes.
Michelle Alexander
