Scarcely Quotes

384 Scarcely quotes by 278 unique authors

Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses… — Lucy Larcom
I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they… — Oliver Sacks
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft… — Neltje Blanchan
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do… — H P Lovecraft
True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility. — Saint Francis de Sales
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all. — Beverley Nichols
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to… — Iain Pears
I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the… — James Anthony Froude
A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first… — Paul Valery
Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead. — William Allingham
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. — William Godwin
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. — Baltasar Gracian
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it… — Charles Dickens
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. — Charles Dickens
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. — Denis Diderot
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it… — Theodore Dreiser
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. — William Hazlitt
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the… — Elbert Hubbard
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;… — Samuel Johnson
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. — Abraham Lincoln
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. — Joyce Carol Oates

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