24 Quotes about Scarcely @Quotio

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Lord Chesterfield

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Voltaire

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
Christina Of Sweden

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?
John James Audubon

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day.
John Bunyan

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
Saki

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.
Christine Harforth

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
Jesse Stuart

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Charles Simeon

Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion of it is already obsolete. There is scarcely any value in the essays on money, and also in the part about the work on catallactics.
Great Britain

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.
Mary Worley Montagu

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold

Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.
William Allingham

I can scarcely wait till tomorrowwhen a new life begins for me,as it does each day,as it does each way.
Stanley Kunitz

We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.
William H. Gass

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
Dr. Isaac Barrow

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
Russell Hoban

The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry.
Norman Thomas

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 is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
James Hogg

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
Dorothy Day

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio

The government's tighter control over Chinese-bound investments will scarcely have any impact on flat panel makers as they did not bank any hope on an opening to save costs as other sectors did.
Eric Lin

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