Scarcely Quotes

384 Scarcely quotes by 278 unique authors

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a… — Anais Nin
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when… — James M. Barrie
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. — Abigail Adams
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us… — E. M. Forster
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte
I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the… — Neil Gaiman
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them;… — Ursula K. Le Guin
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women… — Julian Barnes
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we… — Neil Gaiman
My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… — Franz Kafka
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth
Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and… — Diana Wynne Jones
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. — JoÃ« Bousquet
I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above… — Sylvia Plath
But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. — Elizabeth Gaskell
There is scarcely any passion without struggle. — Albert Camus
I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she… — Elizabeth Wein

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