"Illogically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Voice illogically, "such things happen every night in such a city. It's a part of the great ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... "I simply won't listen to that kind of talk. There's no excuse for it. Shall I tell you what, more than anything else, has made me respect you since Queen was killed? Ninety-nine women out of a hundred would have managed to remind me, quite illogically and quite inexcusably, that I was saying hard things about poor old Queen at the very moment when she was lying dead on the roof. You didn't. You knew I was very sorry about Queen, but you knew that my feelings as to her death had nothing whatever to do with what ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... she said; and then illogically enough: "the night has been so long! Alas! what shall we say to my uncle ...
— The Short-story • William Patterson Atkinson
... illogically, reasoned James Starr. He communicated his ideas to old Simon, who decidedly appreciated them. Nothing, then, appeared to stand in the way of the match. What, in fact, was there to prevent it? They loved each other; the parents desired nothing better for their son. Harry's comrades envied ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... sure, only a limited number of the simplest symptoms of love." But instead of drawing therefrom the obvious inference that love which has no other symptoms than those is very far from being like modern love, he adds perversely and illogically that "in its essential traits, this passion is presumably the same at all times and ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... supply of carbide is interrupted. There is, however, one particular type of generator in which as a matter of fact the carbide is the moving constituent, viz., the "dipping" apparatus (cf. infra), to which these remarks do not apply; but this machine, as will be seen directly, is, illogically perhaps, but for certain good reasons, classed among the water-to-carbide apparatus. All the mechanical advantages are in favour, as just indicated, of making water the moving substance; and accordingly, ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
... boisterously, and a few minutes' conversation sufficed to show Spinoza that the old pedagogue's soul was even more unchanged than his body. The same hilarious atheism, the same dogmatic disbelief, the same conviction of human folly combined as illogically, as of yore, with schemes of perfect states: time seemed to have mellowed no opinion, toned down no crudity. He was coming, he said, to make a last hopeless call on his famous pupil, the others were working. The others—he explained—were his little ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... arbitrate—concern itself with the unliquidated problems left by the War, such as the Turkish question. Perhaps that dangerous confusion in the mind of this unknown official would not have occurred if Albania had not been illogically admitted to the League of Nations. But now, in November 1921, not an instant was to be lost in settling this frontier question, which—as the Temps pointed out—would have been settled months before if Italy had not prevented it. (She wished ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
... entered into his rest, but is beginning another life with similar struggles and fleeting successes, similar sorrows and disappointments, is not satisfying and is almost shocking[45]. We do not like it, and not to like any particular view about the destinies of the soul is generally, but most illogically, considered ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot
... begun already?" she said; and then, illogically enough: "the night has been so long! Alas! what shall we say to my uncle when ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... Kate had better make up their minds to go away together, somewhere else, and not trouble other people," cried Annie quite illogically. ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler |
