Hardly Quotes

1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart… — John Steinbeck
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me… — James Joyce
I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I… — Oswald Chambers
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or… — Raymond Carver
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much… — Jane Austen
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. — Rob Sheffield
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is… — Frank McCourt
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to… — Gregory Maguire
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. — Cormac McCarthy
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers… — Renata Adler
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty… — C.S. Lewis
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… — Flannery O'Connor
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered… — Niccolo Machiavelli
He might be tall enough to see into tomorrow, but he hadn’t looked there in a long, long time. He’d forgotten how bright it was.… — Sarah Addison Allen
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your… — Walt Whitman
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget… — Hans Christian Andersen
Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between… — Tom Robbins
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked… — Freya Stark
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an… — C.S. Lewis
Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been… — Cassandra Clare
His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for… — Richelle Mead
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That… — William Butler Yeats

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