H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He had taken the precaution of closing the inside shutters of the only window, and his staff, though it leaned lightly on the door, was capable of keeping out anyone who did not want to smash his way in with an ax.”
Source: The Face in the Frost
“He had taken up woodworking, there was sawdust on his soft worn trousers; his wife had wrapped a scarf around his neck and kissed his cheek as he went out.”
Source: In the Woods
“He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.”
“He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.”
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“He had that rarest of all things, common sense.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.”
Source: The house of the seven gables
“He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.”
“He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.”
“He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made me do something I didn't think I could do.... If you trust him, you can do things. If he's decided that something should happen, then he's just going to make it happen. (Elizabeth Holmes)”
“He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.”
Source: Courtship Rite
“He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“He had the body of a god and a Southern drawl that made her toes curl.”
Source: Devoted to Destiny
“He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.”
Source: The Magus
“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.”
Source: Rebecca
“He had the feeling she hadn’t ever felt loved. That was going to change. He knew he loved her. He didn’t know when or how it started, it just crept up on him, but he wasn’t going to let her feel alone. She would always know she could count on him.”
Source: Leopard's Rage
“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”
Source: Wise Blood: A Novel
“He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“He had the gift of the gab and could sell sand to Arabs. Hell, he could sell a bag of dildos to a nun – no joke”
Source: Steel Dogs
“He had the good memory which is more useful for scholastic achievement than mental power.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!”
Source: Wuthering Heights: Classic English Literature
“He had the impression of Shylah pouting, and that made him happy. Just talking to her made him happy. The fact that she would circle around, hunt and find the man watching from the forest, was a complete turn-on. He liked that this woman would be his partner.”
Source: Toxic Game
“He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It had to be. His burning love for her cursed through him until he felt so full he didn’t know whether he would fit through the portal.”
“He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that sort of milky film over the other one, ya..ya know, ya know what I mean? But still he was my identical twin.”
“He had the kind of shrunken posture that promised something terrible had happened to him.”
Source: We Wish You Luck
“He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.”
Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5
“He had the look of death in his eyes.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
“He had the look, Vega thought, the one reserved for teenaged boys, the one that says there's nothing but girls and beer and sports in the world and I am goddamn okay with that.”
Source: Two Girls Down
“He had the mathematics of fighting down to a science.”
Source: The Dragon Republic
“He had the most sublime wit, and you never knew what was going to come out of his mouth.”
Source: The Voyeur's Yacht
“He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.”
Source: Sprout of Disruption
“He had the patience and optimism of someone who thought Jesus was watching.”
Source: Dark Places
“He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“He had the queerest feeling that he was the only one who was privileged to see just how beautiful she was. As if it were a secret, locked up tight, to which only he held the key.”
Source: The Winter Companion
“He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.”
Source: Creep
“He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.”
“He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.”
“He had the skills, he could have fought them. But he did not. He was too scared that he would fail - as if the winners of the world fight their battles certain of their victories!”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“He had the sleeves rolled up on his bathrobe, and it was a fairly jarring, chaotic picture he painted, yet somehow he made it seem lazily elegant. Like a sculptor shaping a lump of clay with muddy hands, like feeling along the edges of rolled-out pastry dough to check its thickness, or scoring a flour-dusted bâtard—something weirdly bold and confident about it. The seductive art of Nutella, as taught by one Tonio Salone. Unnerving.”
Source: And We All Bled Oil
“He had the slick, proprietary attitude that small men from big cities sometimes bring toward big men from small cities”
Source: The Association of Small Bombs
“He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and made horsey if he was trying to get to a society party, and his father’s East End adopted with relative ease when he wanted to be taken as working class.”
Source: Ordinary Human Failings
“He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.”
“He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture.”
Source: Foul Days
“He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge
“He had the strangest feeling come over him, which he'd never before known. Like he was meeting his best friend, for the first time. It was recognition mixed with relief...but also some amount of joy. Like, "Oh, there you are! It's so great to meet you finally! I've missed you!”
Source: Nobody Likes Fairytale Pirates