Humorous Quotes

Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same--she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain For the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion. ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "And yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare