Absurdities

Examples

• Meg's wedding has turned all our heads, and we talk of nothing but lovers and such absurdities. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• When any opinion leads us into absurdities, it is certainly false; but it is not certain an opinion is false, because it is of dangerous consequence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He would never have contradicted her, and when a woman is not contradicted, she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If we embrace this principle, and condemn all refined reasoning, we run into the most manifest absurdities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And at others, what a heap of absurdities it is! Jane Austen. Emma.
• And yet in the absurdities which follow from some uses of the analogy, there seems to be an intimation conveyed that virtue is more than art. Plato. The Republic.
• I shall here endeavour to find some new absurdities in this reasoning. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Elizabeth loved absurdities, but she had known Sir William's too long. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• On their first introduction, omnibuses were considered absurdities, and were ridiculed as painted hearses. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The follies of vanity entrap them all into absurdities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This pretence, much favoured by the lady-visitors, led to the ghastliest absurdities. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yes--and tragic--like most absurdities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Typed by Anton