H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!”
“How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!”
Source: The Last Man
“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!”
Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
“How dry eyes can get when they are not allowed to cry!”
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!
As tho’ to breathe were life!”
Source: Ulysses
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.”
“How dull would it be to consume my meat with only one variety of sauce? My body and spirit would whither, being fed on such limited fare. To sample the delights of a great many women is considered right and healthy for a man, yet the opposite is held true for those of our sex. Where we display undue interest in sexual matters, even within marriage, we are thought immoral. For myself, I can only conceive of such limitation with horror: a torture for which I have no taste.”
Mademoiselle Noire - The Gentlemen's Club”
Source: The Gentlemen's Club
“How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water.”
Source: Food: A Love Story
“How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either.”
“How easily a face is disfigured in the abstraction a pile of bodies so naturally makes.”
Source: The Emperor of Gladness
“How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!”
Source: Tartuffe and Other Plays
“how easily a man who has never been in any great distress, may pass through life without knowing, in his own person at least, anything of the possible goodness of the human heart - or, as I must add with a sigh, of its possible vileness. So a thick curtain of manners is drawn over the features and expression of men's natures, that to the ordinary observer, the two extremities, and the infinite field of varieties which lie between them, are all confounded - the vast and multitudinous line of differences expressed in the gamut or alphabet of elementary sounds.”
Source: Confessions of an English Opium Eater
“How easily lives change. One decision, made in a moment, and everything alters forever.”
Source: Wild Magic
“How easily men satisfy themselves that the Constitution is exactly what they wish it to be”
Source: Commentaries on the constitution of the United States
“How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”
Source: The Green Knight
“How easily she shifted from bold when she told off that woman to kind and sweet when she helped put Henry at ease by feeding him and chatting about books. Witnessing that makes my heart beat faster. All the bones in my rib cage shake.”
Source: The Boy With the Bookstore
“How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.”
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.”
Source: HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
“How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.”
“How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.”
Source: Night Watch
“How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.”
“How easily, Urmi thinks, we place our trust everywhere except in the one precious sanctuary that is ours alone, ours forever. (Pros and Cons)”
Source: Each of Us Killers
“How easily we accept the fact that this is a varied world, with many races, cultures, and mores. In America we rejoice in this diversity, this pluralism, which makes up the rich pattern of our national being. We should learn to accept this pluralism in ourselves, to rejoice in the truth that we human being consist of a variety of moods, impulses, traits, and emotions … If we become pluralistic in thinking about ourselves, we shall learn to take the depressed mood or the cruel mood or the uncooperative mood for what is, one of many, fleeting, not permanent. As pluralists we take ourselves for worse as well as for better, cease demanding a brittle perfection which can lead only to inner despair. There are facets of failure in every person’s makeup and there are elements of success. Both must be accepted while we try to emphasize the latter through self-knowledge.”
Source: Peace of Mind: Insights on Human Nature That Can Change Your Life
“How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.”
“How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.”
“How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider strong emotion or outward conduct as life. In reality, though, these are not life. We ought to realize that only the Lord is life. Christ is our life. And it is the Lord who lives out this life in us. Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him. May we see the Lord in all things-way, truth, and life are all found in knowing Him. May we really meet the Son of God and let Him live in us. Amen.”
Source: Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
“How easily women become the first casualty of every conflict, large or small. Rape and gendered segregation are common weapons of war and ethnic cleansing.”
Source: The Kaurs of 1984: The Untold, Unheard Stories of Sikh Women
“How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“How easy and wonderful it is to live in happy days and how bitter and accursed it is in miserable days! Why can't people save up the one to soften the pain of the other? Why is there always a chasm between the two? Where were you, what games were you playing when your fate was being decided? Why did you let them chop off your wings, without thinking, just when you needed them most, when you need to fly and not crawl from disaster?”
Source: Live and Remember
“How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!”
Source: Many long years ago
“How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.”
“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.”
“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?”
“How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.”
“How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.”
“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”
“How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information.”
Source: Healology
“How easy it is for some people to just use others and then throw them out of life.”
“How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!”
Source: Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale
“How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”
“How easy it is to be unknown!”
Source: The Recess: Or, A Tale of Other Times
“How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.”
“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.”
“How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering.”
“How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.”
“How easy it is to fly on paper wings!”
Source: The Story of My Life
“How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.”
Source: The Iron Queen
“How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.”