Able Quote by Joanna Lumley

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

— Beverley Nichols

“For each of us, he understood, is born into our own time and eventually the things we held as the center of our world,…

— Lan Samantha Chang

“I was born not to die but to live and never born.”

— Santosh Kalwar

I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not…

— Joanna Lumley

“Such weakness can scarcely be conceived, and to those who have never been similarly situated will, no doubt, appear unnatural;”

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

“Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate.”

— Malcolm Lowry

“In any case fashions of one generation, moral or physical, are scarcely at all assessable in terms of another. They cannot be properly equated.”

— Anthony Powell

“She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.

— Antonio Porchia

“The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.”

— Terrance Dicks