Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the... →
Janet Frame
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick the Great
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
Theodore Gericault
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it.
Maurice Gibb
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
Margaret Halsey
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander Hamilton
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
Tom Hayden