I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

- John Bright

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

- Truman Capote

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

- Tertullian

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

- Stephen Covey

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

- Michael Owen

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

- Miranda Hart

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

- Leonard Bernstein

Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

- Karen Hesse

You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

- Katie Price

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

- Kangana Ranaut

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

- Joseph Heller

Sometimes I'll go on a Twitter spree and reply as much as I can. Talking to my fans is so much fun even if it is in 140 characters or less.

- Jordin Sparks

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

- Ishmael Reed

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

- Henry Rollins

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

- Gary Vaynerchuk

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

- Dorothea Dix

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

- David Hockney

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

- Charles Lyell

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

- Charles Babbage