Worldly

Famous quotes containing the word worldly:

    Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    With this Ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Wedding,” (1662)

    From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)