Top 32 Arrant Quotes
#1. I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt
#2. They took council. On that raw tablestone the flames of their balefire swirled and circled and they studied the arrant blackness under them where it fell away like the sheer cloven face of the world.
Cormac McCarthy
#3. Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
Will Durant
#4. Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?
Angelina Grimke
#5. Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
"That comes
as you call it
of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#6. Gallantry," he often told his men, "is an act of great courage under fire, of bravery beyond the call of duty. But if it kills your comrades as well or puts the battle in jeopardy, then it is arrant pride and foolishness. Learn to know the difference.
Charles Todd
#7. Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
Louis Sullivan
#10. It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
Elizabeth Kenny
#11. This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Oliver Goldsmith
#13. There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
#14. The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
That comed
as you call it
of being arrant asses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#16. For the rival candidate, an effort must be made to destroy his chance by establishing by dint of affirmation, repetition, and contagion that he is an arrant scoundrel, and that it is a matter of common knowledge that he has been guilty of several crimes.
Gustave Le Bon
#17. I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
William Shakespeare
#19. To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.
Thomas Hobbes
#20. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
William Shakespeare
#21. I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.
Alice Miller
#22. As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.
Desmond Morris
#23. Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin
Sunday Adelaja
#25. Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
Mercy Otis Warren
#26. For get this quite clear, every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose. Every time I have to decide between you [Charles de Gaulle] and Roosevelt, I shall always choose Roosevelt.
Winston S. Churchill
#27. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.
Jose Saramago
#28. I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker ... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.
Cory Booker
#30. Hate was such a waste of human resources. So little was accomplished with hate, so much more with love.
Haley Walsh
#31. gamble in a wartime prison camp should serve as an example to the staff of the World Bank today. We'll discover what the disasters at Three Mile Island and Deepwater Horizon have to tell us about preventing another Lehman Brothers crisis. We'll learn from a watchmaker,
Tim Harford
#32. The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies.
John Ralston Saul
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