You will never be merely pretty

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another…

— Gail Carson Levine

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

— Lord Chesterfield

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think…

— David Herbert Donald

It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

— Gore Vidal

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

— Margaret MacMillan

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or…

— John Ridley

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

— Hermann Goering

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.

— Lorenz Oken

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

— Knute Rockne

Love is merely a madness.

— William Shakespeare

If you are in love with someone, a kiss is merely a way of expressing it.

— Regina Cassandra

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on…

— Nancy Pearcey

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as…

— Richard Curtis