Replied Quotes

• What is the way of human life, the student asked. An open-eyed man falling down a well, the master replied.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Master
  • Human Life
  • Replied

• Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Vacation
  • Smiled
  • Replied

• Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

  

  Plutarch
  • Punish
  • Replied
  • Wronged

• He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

  

  Diogenes
  • Refused
  • Statue
  • Replied

• Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

  

  Plutarch
  • Carpet
  • Discourse
  • Replied

• To the question what wine he found pleasant to drink, he replied, "That for which other people pay."

  

  Diogenes
  • Question
  • Pay
  • Replied

• The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Name
  • Replied
  • Schitt

• I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.

  

  Gerald Morris
  • Present
  • Always
  • Occupation

• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Replied
  • Reeling
  • Abmition

• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Want
  • Courage
  • Creep

• When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

  

  Elvin Hayes
  • Replied
  • Giraffe
  • Basketball player

• Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

  

  Ernst Thalmann
  • Face
  • Questions
  • Replied

• Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Moment
  • Replied
  • Hesitated