Quotes with thoroughly

  • The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
  • London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Socrates A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Alan K. Simpson An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Butler Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bram Stoker Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Confucius Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A. S. Byatt I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • June Jordan If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Muriel Spark If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Berthold Auerbach It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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