A Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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Company Fellows Loudest Often

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Mary Wortley Montagu
English - Writer
May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

Ian Fleming

Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.

Richelieu Dennis

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

Eric Hoffer

Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.

Leo Varadkar

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

E. A. Bucchianeri

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Steve Chabot

The laughers are a majority.

Alexander Pope

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

Jason Alexander

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

Diane Duane

Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.

Chris O'Dowd

I do know one thing: you Midwesterners are laughers.

Jo Koy

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'