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Wry Quotes & Sayings

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Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses — Kamila Shamsie

I'd say 'my pleasure' but if I'm gonna carry you to bed, I'd rather you be conscious, Bo said, a wry quirk on his lips. - Blood Like Poison — M. Leighton

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth. — Gary Lutz

She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are. — E.L. Doctorow

As the proverb said, "Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night." Too late for thinking now. Too early for eating. — Orson Scott Card

No second chance?"
A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. — Nora Roberts

You saved my life today, with your boyish skills. He gave her another one of his wry half smiles that made her insides flutter. — Melanie Dickerson

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered — Dashiell Hammett

The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us. — Juliette Fay

Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile. — J.K. Rowling

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face — J.R.R. Tolkien

You don't have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can't talk me out of them either. I love you" Her smile was wry. "Deal with it. — Jeaniene Frost

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, — Ross Wetzsteon

Have you ever seen such an ugly damn cat?" Beckett had said with a wry smile. "Aren't kittens supposed to be all cute and shit?" He liked this kid. — Debra Anastasia

Five years off my life ...
I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids? — Malorie Blackman

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education." — Peter Hilton

Well," Jenni said with a wry smile, "at least we live in Texas, where people actually own guns and hunt. — Rhiannon Frater

Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy. — Diana Gabaldon

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules. — Alistair Cooke

A wry smile crossed Havens' lips. Pork here in an overwhelmingly Muslim population was a stupid thought, even for self-talk.
OK, turkey bacon. — J.T. Patten

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

That was Chas. Furious and black-hearted one minute, ready to crack a wry joke the next. — Colleen Gleason

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry. — Lorrie Moore

What does salmon have to do with the Warriors?" I asked.
Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salon. And I don't know the connection. — Richelle Mead

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated. — Meg Howrey

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it. — Augustus William Hare

There is more than one Sue Brown. — Sue Brown

Your Highness, what do you call it when a high-ranking person lies right in your face?" the President asked with a wry smile. "Diplomacy. — Tom Clancy

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad. — Jim Butcher

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves. — Anthony Powell

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen

The English understand the nuance of insult better than any other race — Helen Bryan

Goodnight, Nash."
His lips twist into a wry smile. I wonder what he was expecting. "Good night, beautiful Olivia. — M. Leighton

He eyed her cart with wry amusement. You either have a lot of very little flashlights, or a busy vibrator. — Jill Shalvis

He gave a wry smile. With all this vigilant vigils on virginity, you would think the country would have controlled its population by now. — Mallika Nawal

Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky — Cecilia Dart-Thornton