Thoroughly Quotes

588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors

He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair — Edgar Allan Poe
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,”… — Cassandra Clare
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is… — Julia Quinn
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… — Thomas Huxley
The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s… — Elizabeth Gilbert
And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to… — Lisa Kleypas
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman… — Lisa Kleypas
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that… — Brennan Manning
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. — Flann O'Brien
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very… — Shirley Jackson
..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that… — Muriel Barbery
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. — Anton Chekhov
Thanks to His Majesty," the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much… — Megan Whalen Turner
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths… — Stephen Fry
So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. — Stephenie Meyer
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation… — Kurt Vonnegut
Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. — Ray Bradbury
It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate… — Amy Carmichael
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. — Charlotte Bronte
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. — Emile M. Cioran
I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have… — Carl Sagan

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