"Often a man can play the helpless child……" — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child."
More Almost Never Quotes
- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. — Dave Barry
- Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance… — Christopher Alexander
- Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. — Steve Carell
- Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least… — Carl Sagan
- I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does… — Malcolm X
- A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's… — Russell Lynes
- Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given… — George Orwell
- Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of… — Stephen Jay Gould
- Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always… — Eugene H. Peterson
- One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough… — David Foster Wallace
- Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that… — Edward Weston
- I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of… — Galen Rowell