Surest Quotes
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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
andré maurois— Ariel (1923)
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
henry l. stimson— The Bomb and the Opportunity (March 1946)
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation.
— Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation
— Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), De l'Homme 108.
The city’s architecture is the surest sign that Goa evolved independently of the rest of India. In the small old quarters of Fontainhas and Sao Tomé, winding alleyways are lined with Portuguese-style houses, boasting distinctive red-tiled roofs, wooden window shutters and rickety balconies decorated with bright pots of petunias.
— Lonely Planet, in “Introducing Panaji”
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
— 1936 My TenYears in a Quandary.
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Sir Edward Coke— 1628 Speech, London, 8 May.
The surest way notto be remembered istotalk aboutthe way you want to be.
Norman Kingsley Mailer— 1968 Interview in Playboy, Aug.
The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
edward coke— Institutes of the Laws of England, Second Part, vol. 1 (1642), Notes to Ch. XXIX of the Charter [Magna Carta], paragraph 1391 [1]
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
demosthenes— As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley, p. 34
But often faltering feetCome surest to the goal;And they who walk in darkness meetThe sunrise of the soul.
henry van dyke— Reliance, st. 2.
Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
ralph waldo emerson— Poetry and Imagination
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— October 9, 1747.
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
john webster— Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.
Sincerity is the surest road to confidence.
david lloyd george— Speech at Aberystwyth (3 August 1928)
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
william ewart gladstone— Speech, Plumstead (30 November 1878)
"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."
aldous huxley— Crome Yellow (1921).[disputed—see talk page]
The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold— Douglas Jerrold's Wit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael— "Zeitgeist and Poltergeist; or, Are Movies Going to Pieces?" (December 1964), from I Lost It at the Movies (1965)
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.
— Robert Benchley, in "Quick Quotations" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936).
The word of God is solid; it will stand a thousand readings; and the man who has gone over it the most frequently and the most carefully is the surest of finding new wonders there.
— P. 36. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.
— John H. Clarke, Valdez v. United States, 244 U.S. 432, 450 (1917).
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens , and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
— George Washington, in The Washington Flyer, American Association of Christian Schools, 27 September 2013
The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
edward coke— Edward Coke, Institutes of the Laws of England, Second Part, vol. 1 (1642), Notes to Ch. XXIX of the Charter [Magna Carta], paragraph 1391 [1]
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.
— Oliver Goldsmith, in Retaliation (1774), line 109
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herons of Elmwood, Stanza 9; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 787-90.
I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
— Bill Watterson, in his comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes (spoken by the character Calvin).
