Doubtless Quotes
119 quotes by 104 authors
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Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.
— George R. R. Martin
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She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
— Cassandra Clare
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Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
— David Markson
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Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with…
— Albert Camus
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
— Mark Twain
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I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of…
— George MacDonald
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If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have…
— Georges Cuvier
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black…
— Tertullian
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As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed…
— William T. Vollmann
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English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most…
— Bernhard von Bulow
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that,…
— James Allen
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Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
— William Allen Butler
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It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.
— Karl Menninger
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Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the…
— Benjamin Tucker
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It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What…
— Josiah Quincy
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The…
— Thomas Jefferson
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