Quotes About Rueful

And he was not angry. But, before the pain set in, he had the time to be rueful. He had laid everything out, the best of himself, and it had not been enough. He had considered himself a bohemian, but she had proved too bohemian for him. And he had failed to understand her explanation of herself.

Maybe he's just some guy. Maybe he doesn't have anything to do with why she left or why she took the money." Meryl Lawrence made a tiny self-loathing snort. "I'll ask her if you can find her." I took the envelope. She watched me put it away but didn't look any less unhappy with herself or relieved. "Thank you." "I promised." She gave me a rueful smile. "If

She looked away and said nothing, but then eventually she nodded, in a way that could have been deeply contemplative, or ruefully determined, or somewhere in between. It was hard to tell.

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.

Felix's rather rueful admiration seemed to distress Mildmay even more than his anger had.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

I don't feel like a hero, said Carlos. That's okay, said Mal with a rueful smile. Remember what the professor said? We're the villains you root for in the story.

That's the thing about a good porter"–and he shrugged, or shook his head and sounded so rueful and sort of growly as he said, "Deals with all your baggage.

I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.

He gave a peculiar smile. It seemed intended to be rueful, but some other emotion was hijacking it, warping it into something weirdly triumphant. You seemed pretty sure a month ago . . . I said. Well, you have to take a position, don't you? ...

Men, she said rueful, are the most absurd creatures on this green earth. But there are camels, Gabriel pointed out. Believe me, she answered. I've taken camels into consideration.

Men," she said, rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered, "I've taken camels into consideration.

There's no such thing as a tax on happiness," Helen said, rubbing her forehead. The countess regarded her with rueful sympathy. "My poor girl... it certainly can't be had for free.

Staring down into her mutinous face, he said ruefully, "Don't look like that. Good God, one would think we were conspiring to murder someone." "I have just the person in mind," she muttered. "You had better pray that nothing ever happens to him, because then I would become the earl. And I would wash my hands of the estate." "Would you really?" She seemed genuinely shocked. "Before you could blink.

Stephan's hand left his breast, and reached out. Grey took it, and felt love flow between them. He thought that heart and body must be entirely melted—if only for that moment. Then they parted, each drawing back, each seeing the flash of desolation in the other's face, both smiling ruefully to see it.

I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

Curiously he was a modest man. And as his life dream became less and less likely Swingle became, as they say, merely philosophical—that is rueful, not embittered.

All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity. "They're still keeping to their book then?" Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.