Hardly Quotes
1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors
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Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis…
— James Wolcott
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I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
— Loretta Young
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There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do…
— Geoff Mulgan
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People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know…
— Helen Fisher
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CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.
— Bill Watterson
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Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet…
— Neal Stephenson
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love…
— Robert Hass
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
— Henry David Thoreau
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So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe,…
— Haruki Murakami
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are…
— Winston Churchill
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Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
— Terry Pratchett
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We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
— Peter S. Beagle
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
— Douglas Adams
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so…
— Jane Austen
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Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
— Eoin Colfer
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Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and…
— John Steinbeck
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We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether…
— Dalai Lama
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But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it…
— Samuel Beckett
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