remark quotes

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.Your still fowl, blinking at youwithout remark, mayall thewhilebesittingonone addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Felix Holt, ch.15.

Which I wish to remark And my language is plain That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain.

- (Francis) Bret Harte
  'Plain Language from Truthful James', stanza1. The poem became popularly known as'That Heathen Chinee'.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

-TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
  Blanche. A Streetcar Named Desire, sc.3