A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can…

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the…

— Beverley Nichols

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

— Joanna Lumley

“I called it the garden room because it had a white wooden bed, pale green carpet, and wallpaper decorated with vines and flowers.”

— Mary Simses

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

— Chris Van Allsburg

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Antonio Porchia

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

— Terrance Dicks

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

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

— Cole Younger

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

— P. T. Barnum