Seldom Quotes
1113 Seldom quotes by 730 unique authors
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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and…
— Thomas Hardy
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Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It…
— Thomas Mann
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Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them…
— Charles Bukowski
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I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons…
— Charlaine Harris
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Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived…
— Terry Pratchett
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One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
— John Wooden
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
— Frederick Douglass
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Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
— Henry Ford
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Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.
— Agatha Christie
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Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of…
— Guillaume Musso
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And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their…
— Rosemary Sutcliff
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
— Truman Capote
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We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
— Louisa May Alcott
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Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until…
— Napoleon Hill
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