Hardly Quotes
1520 Hardly quotes by 1098 unique authors
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cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
— Cassandra Clare
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He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What? Is that boy crazy?" "Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think," Sazed said with a smile. "However, this is hardly unexpected.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a…
— Shirley Jackson
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Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
— Lloyd Alexander
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You really shouldn’t do that to people," I criticized. "It’s hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude…
— Philip Larkin
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Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard…
— John Flanagan
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Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make four…
— John Flanagan
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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.
— C.S. Lewis
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It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did…
— Ken Follett
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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
— Walt Whitman
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Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Sarah, honey, I hardly think kidnappers are going to take the time to buy a memento of their stay. I could be wrong, but it…
— Christine Feehan
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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and…
— Stephen King
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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It's so dark," she said lamely. "You want me to hold your hand?" Clary put both her hands behind her back like a small child.…
— Cassandra Clare
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The years... when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It…
— Carl Jung
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He's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freaky Pete's office after…
— Cassandra Clare
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She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer…
— Jane Austen
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So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe…
— Tim Wise
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I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a…
— Alice Hoffman
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With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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