Presumptuously Quotes
- Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology… — Evelyn Waugh
- Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously. — Michel de Montaigne
- It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles… — Robert Owen
- Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were… — George Herbert
- That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. — Madame de Stael
- The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol