"Nakedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... does is to reveal human nature. It does not alter it. It heightens the brutality and the heroism. Selfishness shines out nakedly and kindliness is seen clearer than in routine peace days. War brings out what is inside the person. Sentimental pacifists sit around three thousand miles away and say, "War brutalizes men," and when I hear them I think of the English Tommies giving me their ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... truth actable in true life? I have heard a saying of thy father Godwin, That, were a man of state nakedly true, Men would but take ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... a fallen trunk, and watched. All kinds of images were rushing through his brain—wide wheat fields with a blazing sun on the stooks—a small frame house set nakedly on the flat prairie with a bit of untidy garden round it—its living room in winter, with a huge fire, and a woman moving about—the creek behind it, and himself taking horses down to water. They were images of something that had once meant happiness and hope—a temporary break or interlude in ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... read this, he found himself breathing heavily in the excitement of knowing what it cost the man to write so nakedly for casual eyes. To that elder generation, trained in the habit of thought that prevailed in a country region, so many years ago, it was little short of blasphemy. He turned a page, and had a cumulative surprise. For ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown |
