Sentence examples for were to quote from inspiring English sources

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Those were, to quote Flashman, the days.

Once upon a complacent time we may have thought that we were, to quote John Lennon, clever and classless and free.

I had known that I wanted to do something visual but my attempts at conventional drawing and painting were, to quote my art teacher, crap.

I would like to humbly point out here that Shinran never indicated that his teachings were, to quote your words, "the ONLY dharma that can take people to the end-game".

Where reporters looked into names on the list, it turned out that the voters were, to quote Monty Python, "not dead yet". Yet the stories have taken on the character of urban myth.

She yielded to him as if she were, to quote John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," someone "half in love with easeful death," who longed "to cease upon the midnight with no pain".

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She is, to quote Ray Davies, a dedicated follower of fashion.

There is, to quote a famous senator, a design behind it".

It is, to quote the James novel rather out of context, a "merciless onslaught".

Kertész's own reaction is to quote Karl Kraus: "The situation is desperate, but not serious".

Such would be, to quote Hamlet, "a consummation devoutly to be wished".

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