But such an attitude toward this new art is quite unjustifiable, because, in the first place, that art is spreading more and more, and has already conquered for itself a firm position in society, similar to the one occupied by the Romanticists in the third decade of this century; and, secondly and chiefly, because, if it is permissible to judge in this way of the productions of the latest form of art, called by us Decadent art, merely because we do not understand it, then remember there are an enormous number of people,—all the laborers, and many of the non-laboring folk,—who, in just the same way, do not comprehend those productions of art which we consider admirable: the verses of our favorite artists—Goethe, Schiller, and Hugo; the novels of Dickens, the music of Beethoven and Chopin, the pictures of Raphael, Michael Angelo, da Vinci, etc.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Quite unnecessary," broke in the doctor testily.
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

I assure you that there is no need, and my curiosity was quite unjustifiable; but I thought that I might help you more effectually, if I knew the nature of the property you had to restore.”
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

It’s one of those I have never quite understood, but I think it’s clear to me now.’
— from Demos by George Gissing

This large escort was quite unnecessary, but I thought it advisable to show the Arabs that the Government had plenty of troops at its disposal to suppress any trouble on their part.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

“Will you let her go peaceably, or shall I—?” He left the question unfinished, but its threat was obvious.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

Yefrem all at once, quite unexpectedly, burst into tears.
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He had a quite unreasoning belief in the stolidly utilitarian of German philosophers and laid siege to Marcella's mysticism, but after he went back one day she discovered a box of her mother's poetry books and so Tennyson, Shelley and Keats shone into her life and, reading an ancient copy of "David and Bethsaibe," she gathered that the Bible Aunt Janet read sourly had quite human possibilities.
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

The bronze lobster whose back opened and disclosed an inkpot and a sand- box was quite ugly; but I thought it beautiful then, and if Lowell thought otherwise he never did anything to let me know it.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

"I quite understand," broke in the doctor.
— from From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes