These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.
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Trinummus, Act II, sc. ii, line 111; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Plautus
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. It's damn dangerous. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
Tom Petty
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
Jonathan Swift
After West Point and the priesthood, LSD must have seemed downright logical.
Timothy Leary
I myself, as a person, have been influenced by many writers and many things, and my writing has felt the impact of the writing of many writers, some relatively unknown and unimportant, some downright bad. But probably the greatest influence of them all when an influence is most effective — when the man being influenced is nowhere near being solid in his own right — has been the influence of the great tall man with the white beard, the lively eyes, the swift wit and the impish chuckle.
William Saroyan
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