Quoth \Quoth\ (kw[=o]th or kw[u^]th), v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp cw[ae][eth], pl. cw[=ae]don; akin to OS. que[eth]an, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kve[eth]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an. [root]22. Cf. {Bequeath}.] Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he. ``Let me not live, quoth he.'' --Shak.
Here's a taste of what's to come: The Shameless, Nakedly Ambitious Reporter arrives at the scene of the fire: "If this is a two-alarm fire, I'm Mrs. O'Leary's cow!" quoth he.
"Applicants deluge colleges," trumpeted the New York Times in June; "Unexpected influx of college freshmen puts strain on campus housing," quoth the same newspaper in September.