Ineptly Quotes

#1. Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

Richard Barnet

#2. It's "I felt bad," not "I felt badly," because "to feel badly" would mean "to grope about ineptly." The verb "felt" - definitely a verb of the senses, though not on Gordon's list - fuses the "bad" to the subject, rather than simply using an adverb to modify itself.

Mary Norris

#3. A lot of today's campaigns are based on optimum positioning but are totally ineffective - because they are dull, or badly constructed, or ineptly written. If nobody reads your advertisement or looks at your commercial, it doesn't do you much good to have the right positioning.

David Ogilvy

#4. For hardly any of the ecclesiastical writers have handled the Divine Scriptures more ineptly and absurdly than Origen and Jerome.

Martin Luther

#5. There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Moss Hart

#6. It was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

Duke Of Wellington

#8. I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his visuals are beautiful.

Charlotte Sullivan

#9. I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.

Adriano Giannini

#10. Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

Fanny Fern

#11. That's one of the reasons I'm successful, I do tend to do the right thing.

Donald Trump

#12. Thanksgiving means thanking the givers.

Vikrmn

#13. This is why I write: I believe the ordinary world is filled with extraordinary stories.

Lucy Ke

#14. Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Tom Chatfield

#15. It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

Martin Lewis Perl

#16. Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Fiedler

#18. The Chinese dream is an American dream embedded in a Confucian cocoon.

Patrick Mendis

#19. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Duke Of Wellington

#20. Paradise" is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.

Andrew Rayner

#21. However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

Martin Luther

#22. Unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth! And when they say: "I am just," it always soundeth like: "I am just - revenged!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.

Jon Evans

#24. You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few movies in which being a writer was realistically depicted. I loved how the Paul Giamatti character tries so ineptly to talk about his book.

Kristan Higgins

#25. The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Frederic Bastiat