Duly Quotes

#1. The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.

Robert Walpole

#2. Most of our occupations are low comedy ... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

Ken Livingstone

#4. THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by extensively replacing the market with planning.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#5. [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.

James Madison

#6. Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

John Calvin

#7. You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

John Green

#8. Your dislike for the project will be duly noted, and ignored.

John Flanagan

#9. Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

Mordecai Richler

#10. There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

Philip Massinger

#12. Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.

George Crabbe

#13. A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#14. Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Matthew Henry

#15. There is no reason to feel lost, for: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identity, form
no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing; ... The body, sluggish, aged, cold
the embers left from earlier fires, ... shall duly flame again.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Ludwig Von Mises

#17. Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I follow my law and fulfil it all duly and look! when your doubt runneth high North points to the needle!

Edith M. Thomas

#19. It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

#20. Remember, as a responsible junior scientist, you must exercise caution before you ignite your gunpowder," the warning sternly cautioned.

Duly noted, sir. So let's get busy making explosives.

Rick Garvia

#21. Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Vitruvius

#22. It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

Jonathan Edwards

#24. As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, ... The people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear arms.

Tench Coxe

#25. He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Samuel Rutherford

#26. No churches are empty, where the doctrines of the reformation are duly urged, with purity and energy, upon the people's minds.(Rowland Hill)

Edwin Sidney

#27. Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Edward Herrmann

#28. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

#29. Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

#30. You're an interesting woman." "Your interest has been duly noted.

Ilona Andrews

#31. To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#32. Assuredly, when the word of God is despised, all reverence for Him is gone. His majesty cannot be duly honoured among us, nor his worship maintained in its integrity, unless we hang as it were upon his lips.

John Calvin

#33. Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form
no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing ...
The body, sluggish, aged , cold
the embers
left from early fires,
... shall duly flame again

Nicholas Sparks

#34. It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

Russ Feingold

#35. And you'll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.

James Joyce

#36. And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

Robert Burns

#37. The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

John Rawls

#38. Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.

Thomas Boston

#39. Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

#40. It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.

W.G. Sebald

#41. It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.

Victor Hugo

#42. The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised ...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#43. Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert Walpole

#44. The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind ...

Richard Whately

#45. I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked.

Christopher Hitchens

#46. Like every other good thing in this
world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however,
it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Let us be
duly thankful for that, my dear Denis
duly thankful.

Aldous Huxley

#47. Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

George Eliot

#48. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

John Stuart Mill

#49. All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday ... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.

Harold Lindsell

#50. Bernard was duly grateful (it was an enormous comfort to have his friend again) and also duly resentful (it would be pleasure to take some revenge on Helmholtz for his generosity).

Aldous Huxley

#51. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#52. So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

Barack Obama

#53. In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.

Wright Patman

#54. The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.

Anthony Esolen

#55. If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Richard Baxter

#56. The library, although duly considered in many alterations of the house and additions to it, had nevertheless, like an encroaching state, absorbed one room after another until it occupied the greater part of the ground floor.

George MacDonald

#57. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

R.C. Sproul

#58. It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a nice one.

Thomas Hardy

#59. Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

George Washington

#60. I trust my points are noted ... Very noted ... Received, recognized, and duly considered with the utmost gravity. Sealed, notarized, and firmly imprinted upon my rational essence.

Scott Lynch

#61. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

Mary Somerville

#62. Tell me to sod off and off I will duly sod." "What girl could resist? Sod off." I

David Mitchell

#63. The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#64. The headmaster [ ... ] pledged that, provided he behaved himself, he would be duly sheltered and cared for by the state for the rest of his days. It did not occur to any of the boys, nor their fathers, that all this would perhaps not really be free.

Hermann Hesse

#65. If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!

Tom Hardy

#66. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

#67. We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

John Calvin

#68. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison