Seldom Quotes · Page 2

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

— Charlotte Whitton

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

— William Shakespeare

“I seldom ask questions of men, as they are not fond of gossip.”

— Louisa May Alcott

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

— Thomas a Kempis

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

— Elizabeth Hardwick

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

“How, she had no idea. She seldom considered the “how” of things.”

— Julie Anne Long

Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

— James Lasdun

“When you possess great treasures within you, and you try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”

— Paulo Coelho

We can seldom get our children to do what we tell them, but they almost never fail to imitate us.

— Colin Powell

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous…

— Mustafa Akyol

“Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.”

— Jim Butcher

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

— Jeff Beck

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.

— Nancy Gibbs

When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out…

— James Taylor

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the…

— John Marshall

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“[...] But this will not do. No, this will never do. There are continents and shores which beseech our understanding. Seldom have…

— Jim Morrison

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in…

— Colum McCann

As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of…

— Sebastian Faulks

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are…

— Levi Woodbury

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day,…

— Joseph Hall

A seldom end up where I want to go, but almost always end up I need to be

— Hussein Nishah

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

— Malcolm Forbes

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

— Nicholas Sparks

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

— Philip Henry

“seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”

— Neil Gaiman

We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

— George Carlin

I seldom took a drink on the set before 9 a.m.

— W. C. Fields

“Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.”

— Hazel Felleman

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

— Anonymous

Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

— Jon Jones

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime.”

— Agatha Christie

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

— Lionel Shriver