H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.”
Source: Proposal
“He was ever precise in promise-keeping.”
Source: Measure for Measure
“He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”
Source: Armed and Dangerous
“He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.”
Source: Dear Life
“He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.”
Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
“He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.”
Source: The Stranger
“He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.”
Source: The Green Knight
“He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.”
“He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls.”
Source: The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th Anniversary Critical Edition
“He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.”
Source: The Transit of Venus
“He was far beyond being fed up with it all, to the point that his simmering irritation was close to boiling over. He would be a slave to no one. No shackles would bind his hands and feet. He would be free, and yet the fetters of the past that he wished to fast aside instead held him fast, an invisible weight burdening his every step.”
Source: Ai no Kusabi Vol. 1: Stranger
“He was far too cautious a man to become inebriated among potential enemies.”
Source: Leia: Princess of Alderaan
“He was fascinated by Beatrix's competence at things women were not usually competent at. She knew how to use a hammer or a plane tool. She rode better than any woman he had ever seen, and possibly better than any man. She had an original mind, an intelligence woven of recall and intuition. But the more Christopher learned about Beatrix, the more he perceived the vein of insecurity that ran deep in her. A sense of otherness that often inclined her toward solitude. He thought that perhaps it had something to do with her parents' untimely deaths, especially her mother's, which Beatrix had felt as an abandonment. And perhaps it was partly a result of the Hathaways' having been pushed into a social position they had never been prepared for. Being in the upper classes wasn't merely following a set of rules, it was a way of thinking, of carrying oneself and interacting with the world, that had to be instilled since birth. Beatrix would never acquire the sophistication of the young women who had been raised in the aristocracy.
That was one of the things he loved most about her.”
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“He was fed up of hearing about religion; about how much God loves everybody, about how he cares. He hated hearing that.
His father was God’s servant; he preached God’s word, but where was God when the machete was brought down on him? The number of people who died clutching Bibles and praying for rescue, why did God not answer them? He knew he had had enough of God; he
wanted nothing more to do with him.
His views had annoyed the administrators at the foundation; they asked him to be grateful to
God for saving him from death, but why should he be? Why should he be grateful to a God
that killed off all his people and left only him? His views had started affecting the other kids
and it was a welcome relief to everyone in the orphanage when he left.”
Source: A Wall Is Just A Wall
“He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.”
Source: A Hologram for the King
“He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.”
“he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“He was filled with joy because he had believed in Jehovah God.”
“He was filled with the need to see Glendower himself, to touch his hand, to kneel before him, to thank him, to be him.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society from which he was banished, and into which he had so powerfully intervened; that human justice from which he had snatched its prey; all those tigers whose jaws perforce remained empty; those myrmidons, those judges, those executioners, all that royal power which he, poor, insignificant being, had foiled with the power of God.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“He was fine, older, and mostly nice to me. At least, I convinced myself he was nice. And most important, he wanted me.
He could have sex with any girl, but I was the one he was after. Even thinking about it now I get a little twisted up inside. So much of my decision to have sex had more to do with being chosen than it did with any actual sexual attraction.”
Source: With the Fire on High
“He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends”
Source: Les miserables
“He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.”
Source: Les Misérables
“He was footprints in the snow.
Not all loves are meant to last.
Some are meant to grace you briefly,
before fading,
somehow leaving the impression
that the world is just a little bit better
because you had been touched by
something so beautiful it was impossible
to grasp.”
“he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.”
“He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.”
“He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.”
Source: How To Lose A Lord In 10 Days Or Less
“He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.”
Source: The Giver Quartet
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
“He was friendly as a warm bowl of soup. An affable guy, he always had a dimpled smile on his face and lived life unplagued by want.”
Source: Wanted: Elevator Man
“He was frightened of everything, it sometimes seemed, and he hated that about himself. Fear and hatred, fear and hatred: often, it seemed that those were the only two qualities he possessed. Fear of everyone, hatred of himself.”
Source: A Little Life
“He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.”
Source: The Notebook
“He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.”
“He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.”
Source: Midnight Riot
“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.”
Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes
“He was full of admiration for the Russians and especially for their women, who, he says, show amazing courage, dignity[,] and fortitude.”
Source: Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945
“He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“He was gathering everything up, everything he should tell her.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“He was gazing at her, the way one did when one felt one was unobserved. He had that look on his face, the look he usually got only when he was playing the violin, as if he were completely caught up and entranced.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“He was gazing down at his phone, his shoulders tense, his spine curling toward it.
She had the urge to call out to him, startle him with her voice: What’s in your phone that isn’t right here in front of you?
There is a naked person in your bed. There is a breeze in the yard.
Yet she knew there was plenty in his phone that wasn’t right here in front of him. The entire universe.”
Source: Hum
“He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“He was genuinely concerned. He wanted her happy and healthy. The idea of divorcing her when she was ill made him feel even more guilty and she knew it. And he knew she knew.”
“He was getting disgusted at this increasing nostalgic preoccupation with the past. It was a weakness, he knew, a weakness he could scarcely afford if he intended to go on. And yet he kept discovering himself drifting into extensive meditation on aspects of the past. It was almost more than he could control, and it was making him furious with himself.”
Source: I Am Legend
“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“He was getting undressed and it snapped something inside of him that had been drawing taut, ready to break for months.
“I'm hungry, Bruno,” he said, in a soft voice, as he removed the shirt from his broad shoulders, revealing a perfect sight of smooth dark skin. “I can't wait for dinner,” he continued, with a smile.
When he put his hands to the fastening of his trousers, Bruno let out a sigh and put the take out menus on the counter. He couldn't look at him, because he knew Lyon was trying to seduce him on purpose. He didn't want to talk or hear him out or spend time with him that didn't end with an orgasm.
“I can't do this anymore,” Bruno confessed, quietly.”
Source: Clef Notes
“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”
“He was given a ranch, and two lovely mistresses. 'Imagine, at thirty, I was put out to stud. And we Latins are such drowsy pigs that I almost fell for it.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“He was given too much agency in a fallen world.”
Source: The Conjurer
“He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.”