Surely Quotes
1760 quotes by 1252 authors
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,…
— Charles Babbage
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
— Francis Bacon
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
— James A. Baldwin
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
— John Adams
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I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
— Victoria Beckham
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die…
— Annie Besant
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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced…
— Annie Besant
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A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act…
— Augustine Birrell
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
— Harold Bloom
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the…
— Omar N. Bradley
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
— Emily Bronte
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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or…
— Joyce Brothers
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
— Julie Burchill
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are…
— Julie Burchill
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
— Albert Camus
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
— Paul Cezanne
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But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
— Agatha Christie
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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