Quotes About Remarked

I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.

Only in England is the coffee so atrocious,' he remarked. 'On the continent, they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made.

As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet.

One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."

That's Frank Master's hand," he remarked.

Even a year later, Bush remarked to a friend, with uncharacteristic bluntness: "I wouldn't care if I never see Richard Nixon again.

One of them remarked, in a flat weary voice, "The wolves will eat well this year.

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?

Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them. 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 such a distance too!

There! she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. Don't they look tempting? I always think that food tastes better outdoors. With that remark, remarked Kismine, Jasmine enters the Middle class.

He remarked afterwards to me, apropos to Hooper, that it was a curious thing that a number of men, knowing that there was nothing they could do, could quietly watch a man fighting for his life, and he did not think that any but the British temperament could do so.

Now I remarked a little while ago that I wanted the Talamasca to envelop her in fantasy, to give her everything she should desire.

The division seems rather unfair, I remarked. You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

I am inclined to think— said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that it means?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital

Well, of course Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened. I would not tell them too much, said Holmes. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them. I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment. I shall be back in an hour or two, I remarked.

He prided himself on blunt speaking. Mind you, he did have a weakness for boasting. If you believed all his stories, you'd have thought him responsible for most of the world's major landmarks as well as being advisor and confidant to all the notable magicians. This, as I once remarked to Solomon, was a quite ridiculous claim.

Howard's luck just run out, that's all. Ain't no damn way a guy can go on forever without gittin' hit," gloomily remarked a Gloucester veteran who had joined Company K with Nease two campaigns before Okinawa.

Lady Danbury: You are getting smart in your old age Mr. Bridgerton. Colin: It has occasionally been remarked that I possessed a small modicum of intelligence in my youth, as well. Lady Danbury: Hmmph. The important word in that sentence being 'small', of course. Colin looked at Penelope through narrowed eyes. She appeared to be choking on laughter.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

In the winter of 1932, when two friends picked him up from the Bronxville train station, he remarked sardonically, "I want to stop by the house for a minute, and check the nursery and see if there's anybody new in the family." He came out and exclaimed, "By God, there is!" (It was Teddy, born on February 22.)

Speaking of lunacy,' remarked Pyrgus later, 'are you in love with my sister?' Oh, yes!' Henry said at once.

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.

It smells odd," Fermín remarked. "Like a rancid fart, from a councilman or a lawyer.