Doubtless Quotes

119 quotes by 104 authors

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been… — Oliver Sacks
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine
And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped,… — P.G. Wodehouse
We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict, — Alasdair MacIntyre
The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which… — Thomas Boston
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be… — James Hilton
Now I admit that the notion of a warless world is a pleasant and attractive thought. But people who believe that there can be such… — Revilo P. Oliver
Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a… — Ambrose Bierce
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais… — Adolf Anderssen
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them… — James Payn
In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has… — Alice Stone Blackwell
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was… — Victor Hugo
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and… — Izaak Walton
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricityâ€”like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when… — John Burroughs
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact. — Robert Louis Stevenson
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. — Michel de Montaigne
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide

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