"I have an income nearly sufficient for my……" — Anthony Hope
"I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)."
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13 Quotes by Anthony Hope
Anthony Hope has 13 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have…
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In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never…
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
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I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
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Good families are generally worse than any others.
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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
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There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to…
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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes…
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
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More Ever Quite Quotes
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I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what…
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A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real…
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The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one…
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To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as…
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some…
— Salman Rushdie
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Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor,…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his…
— Raymond Chandler
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid…
— H. L. Mencken
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You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite…
— Sean Parker
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I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
— Paula Radcliffe
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Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.
— Lester Bangs
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