Tolerably Quotes

#1. Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.

Gail Carriger

#2. The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume:

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. ... a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper
a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make
everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens

#4. There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

Cyril Connolly

#5. The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Philip Sidney

#6. You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

Patrick O'Brian

#7. Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

Elbert Hubbard

#8. I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Fred Melamed

#9. Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most
perfect place for talking on earth
the top of a tolerably deserted
tramcar. To talk on the top of a hill is superb, but to talk on the
top of a flying hill is a fairy tale.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.

Washington Irving

#11. Stop thinking. Son't hesitate. Act. The mantra has served her tolerably so far. Looking into the future would improvise her if she allowed it.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#12. Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

Thomas Huxley

#13. There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

J. William Fulbright

#14. Biffy was tolerably more disturbed by the fact that he had developed a cowlick while sleeping that would to lie flat no matter what he did.

Gail Carriger

#15. All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#16. Again, you may look upon life as an unprofitable episode, disturbing the blessed calm of non-existence. And, in any case, even though things have gone with you tolerably well, the longer you live the more clearly you will feel that, on the whole, life is a disappointment, nay, a cheat.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#17. But poor Mrs Clay who, with all her merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty, I really think poor Mrs Clay may be staying here in perfect safety. One

Jane Austen

#18. Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

T.E. Lawrence

#19. Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#20. There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; ... also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. They stamp the slush off their boots with autopilot eyes and answering-machine voices while they wait for their drug of choice - caffeine or nicotine or sugar - to kick in and render their bodies at least tolerably functional until the first break. Out

Fredrik Backman

#23. I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings ... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade ... with stiff fingers and chilled bones ... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.

Howard Pyle

#24. At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing to change them.

Jane Austen

#25. On all other subjects I believe he is tolerably sane.

Saki

#26. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Jonathan Swift

#27. I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

John Stuart Mill

#28. We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

William Allen White

#29. As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Susan Sontag

#30. We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#31. Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Friedrich Schiller

#32. A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Mark Twain

#33. We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#34. There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

John Stuart Mill

#35. The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

Abraham Lincoln

#36. TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,
O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

Ann Radcliffe

#38. Somewhat mollified by certain cups of very good coffee, he came out smiling and talking, in tolerably restored humor.

Harriet Beecher Stowe