Top 100 Quotes About Downright
#1. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.
Herman Melville
#2. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#3. Babineau was always intense, but these days he's downright weird.
Stephen King
#4. It's fascinating to watch a man of his stature be so domesticated. It's downright erotic.
T.C. Matson
#5. Everything you have ever read about vampires - most of it is inaccurate or downright false. We are not beautiful, we don't turn into bats, we don't shrivel up in the sunlight and we are most definitely not afraid of something as fickle as garlic.
K.A. Poe
#6. Indeed, the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp's urinal was one - quite a good one the first time around, corny by mid-twentieth century, and downright stupid today.
Roger Scruton
#7. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.
Mary Norris
#8. His smile became downright wicked. I can make you beg for the mere whisper of my breath on your skin. I can do things with my tongue that will make you scream with the exquisite intensity of it. And I can make you come so hard, for so long, that you'll pass out from pleasure.
Larissa Ione
#9. I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.
Anita Loos
#10. Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.
Nella Larsen
#11. Brian Oliver was hot on TV. In person, he was downright mesmerizing.
Kelly Oram
#12. Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
Jesse D. Jennings
#13. Nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
Walker Evans
#14. All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
#15. Some people think that it's okay to be downright nasty to people they love. It is not okay. Nasty is never called for, and it's certainly not sweet, useful, nor positive.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#16. Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
Charles Churchill
#18. but the young dead stay with us, they color our dreams, they make us wonder about ourselves, that we should be so unlucky, or clumsy, or so downright ordinary as to carry on without them. Yet
John Burnside
#19. At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
Gail Godwin
#20. Music was powerful in its own right, but when it reflected your mood and spoke to your heart, it could be therapeutic and downright empowering.
Laurie Olerich
#21. Why, there's just something downright delicious about a gentleman who can handle himself well in a dangerous situaion.
Jen Turano
#22. But mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside - foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty along about sundown,
Larry McMurtry
#23. I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.
Dave Smalley
#24. Now...place a finger on the nub between your nether lips."
"But it's a sin," I said, wishing to heaven it wasn't.
"Only on dry land. On my ship, it's downright sacred.
Lyla Sinclair
#25. Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#26. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#27. Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.
Violet Cross
#29. When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.
Marieta Maglas
#30. I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.
Lauren Kate
#31. If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.
Kathryn Schulz
#32. We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
A. Theodore Tuttle
#33. The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.
Guy Kawasaki
#35. When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.
Cynthia Sue Larson
#36. Often the pronouns I, me, and you are not just harmless but downright helpful. They simulate a conversation, as classic style recommends, and they are gifts to the memory-challenged reader.
Steven Pinker
#37. Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.
Srikumar Rao
#38. I could not get used to the idea of ther being classes of people inherently inferior to oneself, to whom one could be as odiously condescendign or downright brutal as one likes, yet with whom one lived as intimately as family.
Robyn Davidson
#39. Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.
Thomas Paine
#40. Lord, did he have the best smile. It was in turns sweet, seductive, and downright sexy. How could a man look so good without even seeming to try? Laith was charming, enticing, handsome, and fascinating.
If she had to classify him, it would be sex-on-a-stick.
Donna Grant
#41. There's a fine line between living in the moment and being downright stupid.
Kamini Patel
#42. The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.
Willie Nelson
#44. The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.
Jose Antonio Bowen
#45. Love can do funny things to you. It can make you happy; it can make you sad. It can even make you downright miserable.
Danielle Violette
#46. In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
Dick Cavett
#47. The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Marsden Hartley
#48. If I thought Fridays were awesome when I was a full-time student, they're downright euphoric now that I'm part of the regular workforce.
Lauren Layne
#49. [Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.
Jay Carr
#51. The subconscious mind, like the Good Lord, can work in a mysterious way, and mine has been known to work in a way that is completely unintelligible, if not downright barmy.
John Dolan
#52. Actually, she'd been downright awful to him. But he kept his back to her, as though the question didn't matter. And
Sarah J. Maas
#53. The Black Dagger Brotherhood were keeping him alive, so that they could kill him. Given the sum of Xcor's earthly pursuits, which had been at their best violent, and at their worst downright depraved, it seemed an apt end for him.
-Xcor's thoughts
J.R. Ward
#54. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken
#55. Thinking these kinds of thoughts, feeling these kinds of feelings, it's more than disloyal. I know that. It's downright traitorous.
Jenny Han
#56. It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.
Lamees Alhassar
#57. The woman who is liberated must never cross the line in which we ask men to examine their actions; we are a country built on the ideas, ingenuity, canniness, and downright brutality of man - to question their motives is to question our existence.
Kristen Kehoe
#58. The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.
James Moore
#60. Nah, you always look good. As for me ... well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around here. You can't even begin to understand. It radiates from everyone on a spiritual level. It's overwhelming. It makes your dark aura downright cheerful.
Richelle Mead
#61. Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun.
Grete Waitz
#62. Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
Carre Otis
#63. On Money - There are many ways to get rich quickly. All of them are risky. Some of them are dangerous. A few of them are downright fatal.
Marsha Hinds
#64. Firstly, phone calls constitute the most direct invasion of someone's space outside of actual physical contact. It strikes me that there is something downright arrogant about expecting someone to drop literally everything they are doing at a specific moment in order to attend to your voice,
Rebecca Davis
#65. Goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.
Charles R. Swindoll
#66. If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
Paul Farmer
#68. I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root," and for me the "fierce winds" include the marginalization-the downright segregation-of literature written by people of color.
Bernice L. McFadden
#69. How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
John Muir
#70. I cupped her cheeks in my hand. "What does this mean?"
She smiled. "It means you can stop saying you have yet another convention to go to. Some of your cover stories are downright insulting.
Jamie McGuire
#71. Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
Michael Johnson
#72. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.
Madeleine L'Engle
#73. Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
Francine Pascal
#74. The system can be cruel. Not just cruel, it can be downright barbaric.
Scott Pratt
#75. Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
"It's up to you to make your happy ending."
Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.
Danika Stone
#76. All right, funny man. Some of the shite I've seen in the last couple o' years makes AIDS monkeys sound downright sensible.
Garth Ennis
#77. You make it sound so simple."
"It is, for the most part. Love is complicated, it can be downright ugly, but with the two of you it can be nothing but beautiful in the end.
A.M. Willard
#78. So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Randall Terry
#79. I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.
Marsha Norman
#80. Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?
George Whitefield
#81. Oh, sweet fuck of all fucks that are downright hot, hard and sweaty. I want this man. I want this walking, fuckable man-caramel.
K.M. Golland
#82. The martinis came, not in little glasses but big as bird baths with twists of lemon peel. The first taste bit like a vampire bat, made its little anesthesia, and after that the drink mellowed and toward the bottom turned downright good.
John Steinbeck
#84. It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
Barry McGee
#85. None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things.
Toni Morrison
#86. Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#87. The items in our homes that we feel we absolutely "need" are downright extravagances within the global landscape.
Tsh Oxenreider
#89. You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.
Terry Pratchett
#90. I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#91. But the larger point is that we can now see that depriving systems of stressors, vital stressors, is not necessarily a good thing, and can be downright harmful.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#92. It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
Maureen Johnson
#93. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
Paul G. Stoltz
#94. When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
Paul Ryan
#95. He'd never seen anything so downright beautiful. A sense of peace fell over him, calming him, pacifying the always-tense nerves inside of him, and soothing his very soul. He wanted to take that moment, to capture it, and keep it forever.
J.M. Darhower
#96. Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay.
Laura Frantz
#97. The Czechs are downright crazy about mushrooms! In late summer and autumn, a foreigner might even get the impression that the number of sponge-hunting Czechs roaming about in the forests with a punnet largely exceeds the possible number of mushrooms.
Terje B. Englund
#98. More than any other major sport, professional or amateur, college football games are decided by the physical incompetence and downright chokery of their players.
Stephen Rodrick
#99. Looks like we're going to need a new prime suspect, Wax," Wayne said. "This one downright refuses to not be dead already.
Brandon Sanderson
#100. Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
Florence King
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