Famous quotes containing the word replied:
“Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, after all, everybodys wish.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“Of all the riddles of a married life, said my father ... there is not one that has more intricacies in it than thisthat from the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to [child]bed, every female in it ... becomes an inch taller for it....
I think rather, replied my uncle Toby, that tis we who sink an inch lower.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit.... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied tono chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)