How Few Quotes

69 How Few quotes by 61 unique authors

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable. — Augustus William Hare
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. — Bram Stoker
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the… — John Harvey-Jones
The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that,… — Stephen Daldry
Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty. — Unknown Author
Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own. — Charles Churchill
Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be… — Itzhak Perlman
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God. — Frederick Lenz
You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of… — Stephen Leacock
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. — Benjamin Franklin
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. — Harold Prince
No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your… — Simon Sinek
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! — Benjamin Franklin
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd… — Voltaire
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:… — Anton Chekhov
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by… — Natalie Goldberg
Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination… — Bell Hooks
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother… — John Cowper Powys
Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! — Benjamin Franklin
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep… — Edgar Allan Poe
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees,… — Orson Scott Card

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