Famous quotes containing the word exceedingly:
“This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally and politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Or don’t you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty?”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)