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Familiar Quotations

Expediencies

The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.–Edmund Burke

Party honesty is party expedience.–Grover Cleveland

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.–Joseph Conrad

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.–Roy Hattersley

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.–George Horne

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.–Somerset Maugham

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.–Joshua Reynolds

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.–Theodore Roosevelt

Use in Literature

Expediencies

Another expedient is to ask if your father's middle name was not Hierophilus.–Thomas Bailey Aldrich in The Queen of Sheba / My Cousin the Colonel.

I laid the object down, and had recourse to the familiar expedient of striking a match.–Roald Amundsen in The South Pole, vols 1 and 2.

And besides, the ‘desperate expedients’ he would have to adopt in the new line of policy were fraught with peril to all who took part in them.–T.S. Arthur in Cast Adrift.

• Prefacevi
• Familiar Quotations1
• Expediencies1
• Use in Literature2
• Expediencies2
• Expediencies – "Answer"15
• Expediencies – "Authority"15
• Expediencies – "Being"16
• Expediencies – "Best"17
• Expediencies – "Business"18
• Expediencies – "Case"18
• Expediencies – "Change"19
• Expediencies – "Circumstances"20
• Expediencies – "Consideration"21
• Expediencies – "Danger"21
• Expediencies – "Day"22
• Expediencies – "Desperate"22
• Expediencies – "Different"23
• Expediencies – "Done"24
• Expediencies – "Doubtful"24
• Expediencies – "Effect"26
• Expediencies – "End"26
• Expediencies – "Events"27
• Expediencies – "Far"28
• Expediencies – "Feeling"28
• Expediencies – "Found"29
• Expediencies – "Friends"31
• Expediencies – "Go"31
• Expediencies – "Great"32
• Expediencies – "Ground"33
• Expediencies – "Hand"33
• Expediencies – "Having"34
• Expediencies – "Hear"35
• Expediencies – "Hit"36
• Expediencies – "House"37
• Expediencies – "Human"38
• Expediencies – "Idea"38
• Expediencies – "Interest"39
• Expediencies – "Keep"40
• Expediencies – "King"40
• Expediencies – "Life"41
• Expediencies – "Little"42
• Expediencies – "Live"43
• Expediencies – "Made"43
• Expediencies – "Men"46
• Expediencies – "Matter"49
• Expediencies – "Means"49
• Expediencies – "Measures"50
• Expediencies – "Necessity"51
• Expediencies – "Nothing"52
• Expediencies – "Once"52
• Expediencies – "Ordered"53
• Expediencies – "Others"54
• Expediencies – "Party"55
• Expediencies – "People"55
• Expediencies – "Political"56
• Expediencies – "Possible"57
• Expediencies – "Practice"57
• Expediencies – "Present"58
• Expediencies – "Principle"59
• Expediencies – "Proposition"60
• Expediencies – "Proved"61
• Expediencies – "Public"61
• Expediencies – "Question"62
• Expediencies – "Readily"63
• Expediencies – "Reasonable"63
• Expediencies – "Resorted"64
• Expediencies – "Return"66
• Expediencies – "Saved"66
• Expediencies – "Second"67
• Expediencies – "Secret"67
• Expediencies – "Simplest"68
• Expediencies – "Soon"69
• Expediencies – "Speak"70
• Expediencies – "State"71
• Expediencies – "Strong"71
• Expediencies – "Successful"72
• Expediencies – "Thing"73
• Expediencies – "Think"74
• Expediencies – "Thus"76
• Expediencies – "Tried"77
• Expediencies – "True"78
• Expediencies – "Various"79
• Expediencies – "War"79
• Expediencies – "Work"80
• Expediencies – "World"80
• Expediencies – "Years"81
• Expediencies – "Young"82
• Nonfiction Usage84
• Bibliographic Usage84
• Encyclopedic Usage85
• Lexicographic Usage88
• Index97