"Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft……" — Will Durant
"Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property."
More Arrant Quotes
- I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or… — William Hazlitt
- There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt… — Roger Gale
- The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature,… — Alfred Kinsey
- What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a… — Louis Sullivan
- Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. — Swami Vivekananda
- I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only… — Swami Vivekananda
- This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. — Oliver Goldsmith
- It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances… — Elizabeth Kenny
- There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
- This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill
- The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. — William Shakespeare
- All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit… — H P Lovecraft