Famous quotes containing the word bet:
“While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchoppers axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.... When we told Joe of this, he exclaimed, By George, Ill bet that was a moose! They make a noise like that. These sounds affected us strangely, and by their very resemblance to a familiar one, where they probably had so different an origin, enhanced the impression of solitude and wildness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I didnt realize you were an art collector. I thought you just collected corpses. Ill bet you paid plenty for this little piece of sculpture. Shes worth every dollar of it, take it from me. She puts her heart into her work, in fact, her whole body.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)
“Daniel: Im glad to know you.
Jerry: How can you be glad to know me? I know how Id feel if I were sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.
Lucy: Ill bet you do.”
—Vina Delmar, U.S. novelist, playwright. Daniel (Ralph Bellamy)