Quotes About Stout

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address?

man with his frontal lobes pushed back like that is unpredictable.

Are you Nero Wolfe's Archie Goodwin?" "No. I'm my Archie Goodwin. I'm Nero Wolfe's confidential assistant.

I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...

You're an expert. Will they regard it as murder?' 'An expert requires facts to be expert about. I haven't got enough. If you want a guess, I think they will.

This earth, that bears thee dead,Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

and you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

This other Musketeer formed a perfect contrast to his interrogator, who had just designated him by the name of Aramis. He was a stout man, of about two- or three-and-twenty, with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach.

God all white too, looking like some stout white man work at the bank.

Guinness is good for you.

He drinks his stout and laughs that there's nothing like a great bloody steak of a Friday night and if that's the worst sin he ever commits he'll float to heaven body and soul, ha ha ha.

I specialize in famous stout ladies, past and present. I'm best known for my Sophie Tucker. You look almost old enough to remember the late great Sophie, God rest her soul.

green painted walls look clean and bright. Matron was a stout woman in a plain, severely cut dark dress, her light brown hair taken back from her face and covered with a small starched white cap. 'Angela O'Rourke? Please sit down,' came the clipped, well-modulated voice. Angela sat, folding her hands in her lap and trying not to look nervous and edgy.

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

It was curious how that beetlelike type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens, is good quality.

History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Chesterfield A cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man -

Tolkien's Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things, e.g. Rings of Power