Top 273 Remark Quotes & Sayings

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.

It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.

When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

I always knew I was quite good at getting laughs. At school, I loved having a ready audience if I made a cheeky remark.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

Instead of spreading antagonism or hate, try to make a positive remark about something.

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.

There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there's no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you're the one who ends up looking like a jerk.

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.