Chiefly

Famous quotes containing the word chiefly:

    That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short—not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.
    Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)

    What chiefly distinguishes the daily press of the United States from the press of all other countries is not its lack of truthfulness or even its lack of dignity and honor, for these deficiencies are common to the newspapers everywhere, but its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion. It is, in the true sense, never well-informed.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)