Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we…

“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can…

— John Herschel

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

— Antonio Porchia

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

— Cole Younger

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that…

— Seth Shostak

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

“Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

— Edmund White

“She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”

— Terrance Dicks

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

— P. T. Barnum