H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was never one to care whether a person was popular or not. Exhibit A … me.”
Source: Perception
“He was never real… but he made me feel”
Source: Me and Mr. Processor: A Love Beyond Logic
“He was never without misery, and never without hope.”
Source: Closing Time
“He was nice in the carriage. I didn't know he knew how to be nice.'
That makes me laugh. At the door to my chambers, she puts her hand on my arm. 'He was trying to impress you, you know. Talking to me.'
I frown. 'I think he just wanted to hear about weird candy.'
She shakes her head. 'He wants you to like him. But just because he wants you to doesn't mean you should.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“He was nine years old; he was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he protected it as the eyelid protects the eye, and he let no one into his soul without the key of love. His teachers complained that he did not want to learn, but his soul was filled with an abundant thirst for knowledge. He learned from Kapitonich, from his nanny, from Nadenka, from Vasily Lukich, but not from his teachers. The water that his father and his teacher were expecting to turn the wheels of their mill had long ago leaked away and was working elsewhere.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He was nine years old; he was a child; but he new his own soul and treasured it, guarding it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his heart.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.”
“He was no longer human. And in that moment, at least, he was glad of it.”
Source: The President's Vampire
“He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.”
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.”
“He was no marionette after all, but an autonomous individual in a staged performance; a production carefully arranged and assembled on his discrete behalf.
And he, Mario Fantoccio, had been invited on-stage to perform.”
Source: The Underworld Rhapsody
“He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.”
“He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.”
Source: Everyman
“He was no storyteller, as he had said, but that made it more enjoyable somehow, watching his serious face as he described flying horses and golden apples.”
Source: Circe
“He was nobody, but a sweet liar!”
“He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.”
Source: The Manxman
“He was not a man to inspire devotion. He had lost his throne in the most ignominious of ways and, once removed from Scotland, was content to allow others to risk their lives and lands on his behalf. But Wallace and Soules were not romantics. They were under no illusions as to Balliol's quality. Hard-headed and practical, they saw in Balliol a symbol of choice and therefore of freedom.”
Source: William Wallace
“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly”
“He was not a monster, she said. People say he was a monster, but he was not one.
What could she have been thinking about? Not much, I guess; not back then, not at the time. She was thinking about how not to think. The times were abnormal. She took pride in her appearance. She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, off key, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation. A big child, she would have said to herself. Her heart would have melted, she'd have smoothed the hair back from his forehead, kissed him on the ear, and not just to get something out of him either. The instinct to soothe, to make it better. There there, she'd say, as he woke from a nightmare. Things are so hard for you. All this she would have believed, because otherwise how could she have kept on living? She was very ordinary, under that beauty. She believed in decency, she was nice to the Jewish maid, or nice enough, nicer than she needed to be.”
“He was not a pretty man, but he had dazzled her by a slow dazzle with his bravery, his hard work, his complete absence of complaint.”
Source: The Strange Land
“He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.”
“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and he was completely bald except for a gray walrus mustache that would have made Hulk Hogan jealous. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, even though it was chilly and wet. His arms were densely tattooed in style I didn’t recognize.”
Source: Tiger and the Robot
“He was not afraid, but slightly bewildered, as a barbarian always is when confronted by the evidence of civilized networks and systems, the workings of which are so baffling and mysterious to him.”
Source: God in the Bowl
“He was not an artist of anything but the hidden intricacies underlying government bureaucracy, and no one else actually cared whether those were beautiful or not.”
Source: The Hands of the Emperor
“He was not an easy child. His idea of a nap was a semicolon at best, never a full stop; a paragraph break.”
Source: No Two Persons
“He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes
“He was not as soft as when I'd first met him, not as young, but the angles of his face, his quick gestures, the way he sucked in his lower lip to think before going on - I was in love with all of it.”
Source: Forever
“He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. 'Jeremiah Stubbs, miss,’ said the Runner. ‘I am here in the execution of my dooty.”
Source: The Talisman Ring
“He was not attracted to the man in the sense that he wanted him for a friend, but he did feel he might help him – how, he didn’t formulate. It was all very obscure, for the mountains still overshadowed Maurice. Risley, surely capering on the summit, might stretch him a helping hand.”
Source: Maurice
“He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils—the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to watch his family wade across and freeze. It was not a decision. The choice had already been made the moment Ole proposed marriage to his wife and welcomed these beautiful daughters into the world.”
Source: Upon Destiny's Song
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition
“He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.”
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.”
Source: Of Human Bondage
“He was not discontented, but he was too restless, too preoccupied. Each day led so relentlessly to the next, linked by cause and effect, anticipation and result, preparation and achievement.”
Source: Demelza
“He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.”
Source: Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1
“He was not good, and he was not mortal.
The sooner she realised that, the better it would be for her. If Camilla was sunshine, he was the darkest of nights. And if she wasn't careful, his shadows would snuff out her light. If only for the fleeting chance to possess her warmth before destroying it.”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“he was not her first love but he was her first true love.”
“He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.”
“He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.”
Source: Ninety-three
“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.”
Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
“He was not just a name on a screen. He was someone who knew her, maybe better than anyone else.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him. What?' Ronald said. I didn't say anything.' You're breathing heavy.”
Source: Faking It
“He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.”
“He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”
“He was not of an age, but for all time!”