#reply

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. ↗

— Truman Capote

#malice #quietness #reply #tone

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#identity #meet #reply #she #smile

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" ↗

— Joseph Heller

#catch-22 #done #good #i #read

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ↗

— Moliere

#any #behavior #best #him #insults

Ciao, bello!' The coal-eyed beauty who had kissed Jason through the Fiat's window appeared through the crowd, her pretty red mouth smiling. Utterly ignoring Storm, she perched herself on the table next to Jason. 'Ciao, bella,' he smiled. 'Vuoi ballare?' 'She wants me to dance,' he explained to Storm, peering round the girl's adolescent bottom. 'I know,' she replied shortly. 'I've got a degree in Italian. ↗

— Madeleine Ker

#beauty

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bothers #cosmos #dumb #me #question

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. ↗

— David Hockney

#demands #e-mails #first #me #need

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#before #ever #intensely #make #more