Instead she merely looked surprised and - could it be - amused.

You should never look down on a person merely because he is poor.

They are merely different.

Merely to breathe does not mean to live.

One can no more write good English than one can compose good music, merely by keeping the rules.

It's merely a joke.

It is merely an ornament.

It is merely a matter of form.

It is merely an imitation pearl.

You should never look down on a man merely because he is poor.

Not merely I but also he is invited to the party.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

I merely came to inform you of the fact.

You shouldn't live merely in pursuit of your own happiness.

A job is not merely a means to earn a living.

The ecologist warned us that petroleum was not merely a blessing but also a curse.

Japanese students seem not merely to be extremely reserved, but to have at times almost a complete reluctance to speak.

He was merely sitting in the place.

He said it merely as a joke.

She was merely stating a fact.

She is not merely beautiful but bright.

She was not merely beautiful, but also talented.

You should never look down upon a man merely because he is poor.

Don't look down on him merely because he is poor.

Never look down on a man merely because he is poor.

Are you certain that you lost your book, or did you merely misplace it?

Labor is not merely a necessity but a pleasure.

Love is merely a lyrical way of referring to lust.

There is also one type of idealism that says even without strength or intelligence you can do anything if you can merely persist.

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

Life is merely a hospital where patients are possessed with the desire to change beds.

How to merely get tea?

Happiness isn't merely having many possessions.

Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are merely its shadow.

His post is merely a huge con.

Nobles do not exist merely because there is a peerage system. Even if there were no peerage system, there will be people who are naturally dominant and who will quickly rise to nobility. So much for our nobility then. Why, we are mere peasants.

Automatic doors can be controlled more intelligently than is now the case. A newly developed control system opens the door only when someone is actually approaching. The door will remain closed if someone is merely standing in front of it or walking past.

Do you actually have any practical merit or have you merely been trying to give them a sense of the true spirit of polite society?

I believe the prince is merely prentending to be mad in order to gain time to make a decision about killing the king.

You have to turn to history and go a few centuries back to the Renaissance era, to Leonardo da Vinci, in order to find such a fascinating man who was not merely a dilettante, but a genius working in many different fields.

Tom was merely a witness.

He is merely a child.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Centuries ago, there were merely 200 countries in the world; today in the 23rd century, there are over 1000.

The first victim was one of my best friends and his loss caused me a great deal of grief; the second victim was merely a German.

The Occident and the Orient are merely on the same planet.

In order to get to know a person, one merely needs to travel with them for a week.

The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.

His work was merely a gesture of good will.

In every period of transition this riff-raff, which exists in every society, rises to the surface, and is not only without any aim but has not even a symptom of an idea, and merely does its utmost to give expression to uneasiness and impatience.

Courage is merely fear that one doesn't show.

The clear and refreshing sound of the wind chimes is one of the characteristics of summers in Japan, but in recent years the number of people who perceive it merely as noise has been increasing.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.

It was merely a matter of luck.

The girl wanted all her father's love for herself and tended to see her mother merely as a rival.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

From any point of view, a fool is still merely a fool.

Whenever a new law is not necessary, it is not merely superfluous but harmful.

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind — a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Her strongest oath was merely "By Saint Loy!", and she was called Madame Eglentine.

All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Hope is merely disappointment deferred.

The decision will merely have been delayed for a few more weeks.

The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.

Today's loss is not merely a waste.

The most lopsided Grand Slam final in tennis history was the 1988 French Open final, when Steffi Graf of FRG pummeled Natasha Zvereva of USSR 6-0, 6-0. The entire match lasted merely 34 minutes.

Mary was so hungry, she gobbled up the pie in merely a few bites!

Even if an intelligent man loves a woman deeply, he will never show his love to her, but merely keep it in his heart.

Originality is merely a new combination of clichés.

That wasn't an order - merely a suggestion.

And he does not merely write this and then not carry it out in deeds.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can they deny themselves the pleasure of my company?

The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

Wealth in the modern world does not come merely from individual effort; it results from a combination of individual effort and of the manifold uses to which the community puts that effort.

To try to change men by law is just like trying to change your face by getting a new mirror. For men make laws, not laws men. The law merely reflects men as they are, as the mirror reflects your features.

It is the business of the politician, the "science of politics", to make you believe that the law protects you and your interests, when it merely serves to keep up the system which robs, dupes, and enslaves you in body and mind.

Appointed commissioners who nobody votes for and who cannot be voted out frame all the laws, and these are then merely rubber-stamped by the European parliament. It's actually scary what this could potentially mean. It's a despot's dream set-up. Very short-sighted to vote to remain.

History is merely repeating itself.

It is often said that if you use certain "environmentally friendly" products, you will be "saving the earth". Unfortunately, such products are, in many cases, merely less destructive than their conventional equivalent.

I merely want to wish Tom well.

Tom is merely a child.

Tom was merely stating a fact.

The judiciary should not become merely an extension of the legislative branch.

I find languages to be uninteresting in themselves; for me, they are merely a means to an end.

This problem is not merely hypothetical.

Magic tricks are merely illusions.

The question arises: does the AI really understand Chinese, or is it merely simulating the ability to do so?

Loanwords don't corrupt a language; they merely change it.