H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“He was one of the first to be shot and killed by the police.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system.”
Source: Pretend I'm Dead
“He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.”
Source: The Name of the Game
“He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.”
“He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”
Source: The Magus
“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
“He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.”
Source: The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories
“He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.”
Source: Gone Girl: A Novel
“He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.”
“He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way.”
Source: The Peach Keeper
“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.”
Source: Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn
“He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.”
Source: Schindler's List
“He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“He was one of those people - almost all of them young men, though not every young man - who was so smart that he couldn't figure out how stupid he was.”
Source: Walkaway
“He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.”
Source: In One Person: A Novel
“He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.”
Source: Dark Ride
“He was one of those people who made you feel like they either didn't know or didn't care that you were in the room and if they ever did acknowledge your existence it was bizarrely score one to you, and twenty years later they'd tell you they'd always had a crush on you but never had the courage to say anything and you'd tell them, What? I didn't even think you liked me? and they'd say, Are you crazy? I just never knew what to say!”
“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.”
Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”
Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“He was one
of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good
feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a
capacity for affection that no one in our times dares own to.”
Source: The Plague
“he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down”
Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau
“he was one of those who are damned to love once”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”
Source: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“He was only too well aware that such resolutions might look very different when the moment came, but he felt an unwonted assurance that somehow or other he would be able to go through with it. It was necessary, and the necessary was always possible.”
Source: Out of the Silent Planet
“He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.”
Source: Thin Skin
“He was only wearing trainers, but a kick in the face is a kick in the face.”
Source: Snap
“He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”
“He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.”
“He was out in the open, waving his hat, pointing to a grove of trees. A moment later Buford looked that way and the horse was bare-backed. He did not believe it. He broke off and rode to see. Reynolds lay in the dirt road, the aides bending over him. When Buford got there the thick stain had already puddled the dirt beneath his head. His eyes were open, half asleep, his face pleasant and composed, a soft smile. Buford knelt. He was dead. An aide, a young sergeant, was crying. Buford backed away. They put a blanket over him. Off to the left there was massive firing. There was a moment of silence around them. Buford said, “Take him out of here.”
Source: The Killer Angels
“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.”
Source: The Moonstone
“He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
“He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.”
Source: Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet
“He was overwhelmed by the desire to drop down to his knees and grab Ty’s hands, and hold him the way he had on the rooftop in London when Livvy had been hurt.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“He was painfully aware of the fact that he was in his underwear. Not the best situation in which to fight people.”
Source: Catholic, Reluctantly
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
Source: Stardust
“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.”
Source: Darkside
“He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.”
Source: Peony: A Novel of China
“He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.”
Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There
“He was paying attention. It felt foreign, a little embarrassingly intimate, but kind of great. My eyes filled up.”
Source: Let It Snow
“He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.”
Source: The Powers That Be
“He was perfect in my eyes. Not a fairy tale kind of perfection that could never be measured up to, but a perfection that was created by him being himself. Even his flaws seemed to fill out my being.”
Source: The Paris Soulmate
“He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his crumpled eyelids and hollowed cheeks and the two deep crevices bracketing his mouth and just his general obtuseness, his stubbornness, his infuriating belief that simple cold logic could solve all life's problems, and she would feel unspeakably lucky to have ended up with him.”
“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.”
His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, delivered himself in these words, which I shall never forget, nor the manner he spoke them in: “My little friend Grildrig, you have made a most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved, that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied, by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom. As for yourself,” continued the king, “who have spent the greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.”
Source: Gulliver’s Travels
“He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing compared to the loneliness. There was no one to talk to, with whom to share his feelings, to laugh, or to simply speak of the day.
And he missed the sound of the children's voices, giggling, their running footsteps, their incessant questions and demands for his attention or approval. No one interrupted to say "Look at me, Papa" or "What is this for?" or "What does this mean?" or the favorite "Why?" Peace was not peace anymore, it was simply silence.”
Source: Half Moon Street
“He was perfectly formed, all steel flesh, so beautiful naked that it simply hurt to look at him. But she suspected it would hurt more when she no longer could.”
Source: Rekindle the Flame