H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was always 'checking in' to see if I needed any help with my campaign, which on the surface seemed nice enough, but it was done in a condescending tone that made me want to staple his lip to his tie.”
Source: My Bluegrass Baby
“He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kindness. However hard he tried, he'd fall behind; and then you would find him prowling about the house, setting such a clip to try and catch up with himself that Easeby was rapidly becoming a perfect hell for man and beast.”
Source: Carry On, Jeeves
“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
“He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.”
Source: Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)
“He was always saying how his mother said, “What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from,” until it made me tired.”
Source: the bell jar
“He was always saying, 'I wonder what Paul is doing.' When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, 'Do you think I should write with Paul again?' I said, 'Absolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can't be beaten.”
“He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.”
“He was always so tensed-up and serious, as if all the softer things had been beaten out of him. His smile was like a bird laying its nest on the side of a jagged cliff; sweetness surviving, enduring everything.”
Source: Hiss
“He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?”
“He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.”
Source: White Fang (Arcadia Classics)
“He was always teaching, moulding her, encouraging her to curb her temper; in many ways he was as much a father figure to her as he was her husband; she in turn admired his knowledge and teaching, as she did everything about him.”
Source: Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House
“He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“He was amazing. He was addicting. At that moment I knew...Owen Mycroft wasn't just a male. This music was of another world, his fluid movements were unlike any human on Earth and sparks flew from his eyes. Couldn't anyone else in the room see those fireworks? Was I the only one? I didn't care what he was. I was in his world now.”
Source: Sweet Sorcerer
“He was an Afghan Hound name Kabul. Since him I have had other Afghan Hounds.... Perhaps I am looking for his ghost. He is the only one that I sometimes think about. Often, if he comes in to my mind when I am working, it alters what I do. The nose on the face I am drawing gets longer and sharper. The hair of the woman I am sketching gets longer and fluffy, resting against her cheeks like his ears rested against his head.”
“He was an alcoholic, too. So was my aunt, my grandmother. My father was a Bible thumper, but if he hadn't been so drunk on Jesus, he'd been the same. Something about our genes. We all get carried away.”
Source: Groundskeeping
“He was an amateur of sex lore.”
Source: Lolita: A Novel
“He was an ancient, powerful and knowledgeable beyond the boundaries of Earth. He was the one his own kind spoke of in whispers, with awe, with fear, with dread. The Dark One.”
Source: Dark Magic
“He was an answer to a prayer. He gave her hope that this having two restaurants would work out after all.”
Source: Hungry For You
“He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.”
“He was an arsehole like that. It was entirely because of good manners that I didn't punch him in the face.”
Source: Take a Deep Breath for Me: A Memoir
“He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.”
“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”
Source: Highly Illogical Behavior
“He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.”
“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts.”
Source: Roderick Hudson
“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
“He was an erotic necessity, clad in denim...”
Source: الحب الضائع
“He was an ill-bred, uneducated man, but very wealthy.”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
“He was an imperialistic, self-righteous pain in the ass. But he was my pain in the ass, you know? And tonight, I won’t be with him. That definitely feels strange.”
Source: Drink Deep
“He was an incurable dandy living the life of a beggar. And living wholly in the past!”
Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”
Source: Paint
“He was an innocent Black boy in Mississippi
Minding his business, going to the store
He became a Civil Rights movement icon
Emmett Till’s spirit continues to roar
This 14-year-old boy was lynched
Because of a woman named Carolyn Bryant
Who said that he flirted and whistled at her
But it was a lie meant to help evil stir”
Source: Turn The Tables
“He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.”
“he was an oddity of some magnitude.”
Source: Whip Hand
“He was an ordinary man. And believe me, there is little on God’s green earth more ordinary or tedious than ordinary men doing monstrous things for tedious reasons.”
Source: immechanica
“He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.”
Source: A Book of Common Prayer
“He was, and then he wasn't. One moment his body was the locus of his personhood, the next moment our memories had to pick up the slack.”
Source: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the wells of nothing, to be dissipated by a reproach or a curse; it was the wrath peculiar to ardent natures rudely awakened by the sudden annihilation of a hope --dream, if you will-- in which the choicest happinesses were thought to be certainly in reach. In such case nothing intermediate will carry off the passion --the quarrel is with Fate.”
Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“He was angry with himself for having kissed her and enjoyed it, only to be disappointed by her in the end.
He knew that love was never simple, but it was even less so for a vampire.
He shook his head in disbelief as he walked away. He had really thought that she was the one for him and had genuinely believed that he
was going to spend the rest of his life with her, but now, he knew better.”
Source: Reckless Abandon
“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been through the revolutionary apocalypse. He knew its tradition like an eyewitness. He knew every little detail of that great thing.
A pontifical and warrior nature, strange in a youth. He was officiating and militant; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of democracy; above the movement of the time, a priest of the ideal.”
Source: Les Misérables
“He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go.”
Source: In the Cut
“He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.”
“He was around toxic people at his worst, but would walk around at his best.”
“He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that heard him;—but then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word,—or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle, with "Ran away from the subscriber" under it. The magic of the real presence of distress,—the imploring human eye, the frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony,—these he had never tried. He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenseless child,—like that one which was now wearing his lost boy's little well-known cap; and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel,—as he was a man, and a downright noble-hearted one, too,—he was, as everybody must see, in a sad case for his patriotism.”
Source: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.”
Source: Black Heart
“He was as much a part of me as my own bones, and now he would be gone. I cried as I hadn't since I was a child. In the shadow of that merchant vessel, we clung to each other like we were ten years younger, the Pale Dreamer and the Red Vision, the last two Seals to break apart.”
Source: The Song Rising
“He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.”
“He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.”
Source: The Hobbit
“He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.”
“He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.”
Source: The Stranger's Child
“He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.”
Source: Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders