fellow quotes

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

-Joseph Addison
  In The Spectator, no.68,18 May.

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

-William Congreve
  Sir Sampson to  Angelica. Love for Love, act 5, sc.2.

A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is

- (George) Norman Douglas
US    lawyer,    Associate    Justice    of    the    US    Supreme    Court (1939^80).       His       consistently       liberal       decisions       were occasionally   controversial,   such   as   the   stay   of   execution granted to the Rosenbergs, convicted spies, in1953.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

We do not like the confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-grained and the cankered, and the howling wilderness to the amenities of civilization, the irascible to the affable, the prickly to the smooth.We have no damned fellow- feeling at all.

-Grieve
  'The Dour Drinkers of Glasgow', in The American Mercury, Mar.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

- H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken
'Minority Report'. Collected in Notebooks (1956).

We were eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

- (David) Dean Rusk
  Recalling his words on the retreat of Soviet ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the Saturday Evening Post, 8 Dec.

Promisetoforgetthis fellowto illiteratehim,Isay, quite from your memory.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Mrs Malaprop to Lydia.The Rivals, act1, sc.2.

Well, maybe like Casy says, a fellowain't got a soul of his own, but on'ya piece of a big onean then† Then it don'matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be everywherewherever you look.Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.Wherever they's a cop beatin'up aguy,I'll bethere.If Casyknowed, why,I'll be inthewayguysyell whenthey'remad an'I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an'they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they buildwhy, I'll be there. See?

-John Ernest Steinbeck
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.28.

Hail fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man.

-Jonathan Swift
  'My Lady's Lamentation', l.171.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.

- Harry S Truman
  Of presidential hopeful Eisenhower. Quoted in Richard M Nixon RN: Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978).

  'Tis ashard tobe a good fellow, a good friend, and a lover of women, as 'tistobe agood fellow, agood friend, and a lover of money.

-William Wycherley
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.