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Tag Name "Arrant" (11)

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Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?
Angelina Grimke
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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves and the second, if we compare cities.
Thomas Hobbes
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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt
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There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
William Shakespeare
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This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
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It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
Elizabeth Kenny
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There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.
Roger Gale
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
Will Durant
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The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
William Shakespeare
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An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
William Shakespeare