"Notwithstanding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their virtues and their services to liberty, civil and religious. Many of its brilliant couplets have passed into the proverbial commonplaces of the language, and few who use them have any idea of their source. Butler, notwithstanding the popularity of his work, was neglected by the Court, ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin
... to the woods. I think, notwithstanding Lord Chief Commissioner's assiduity, they are in some places too thick. I saw a fine larch, felled seventy-two years old, value ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... But, sir, notwithstanding this admiration and sympathy, I cannot lose sight of the vital question before the General Conference ...
— Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... will be so far from being able to mend matters by his 'casting about,' as you call it, that he will find no occasions of doing any good—the ill company will sooner corrupt him than be the better for him; or if, notwithstanding all their ill company, he still remains steady and innocent, yet their follies and knavery will be imputed to him; and, by mixing counsels with them, he must bear his share of all the blame that belongs ...
— Utopia • Thomas More
... I must confess, notwithstanding all I had said, I felt some little solicitude for the result. Who can calculate on the fortitude of one whose life has been a round of pleasures? Her gay spirits might revolt at the dark, downward path of low humility ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
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