Famous quotes containing the word extremely:
“Mr. [Christopher] Smart the poet was here yesterday.... This ingenious writer is one of the most unfortunate of menhe has been twice confined in a mad house.... How great a pity so clever, so ingenious a man should be reduced to such shocking circumstances. He is extremely grave, and has still great wildness in his manner, looks and voicetis impossible to see him and to think of his works, without feeling the utmost pity and concern for him.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“Unfortunately, moral beauty in artlike physical beauty in a personis extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Ive never been on good terms with God, but now Im becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)