H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.”
Source: Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2
“How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.”
“How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.”
“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”
Source: Death on the Nile
“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity”
Source: Allan Quatermain
“How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!”
Source: The Documents in the Case
“How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.”
Source: The Spiritual Man
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”
Source: Sister Carrie
“How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.”
“How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!”
“How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!”
“How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.”
“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”
Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic
“How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“How ugly it all was! And how horribly real ugliness made things!”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.”
“How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.”
Source: Notebooks 1935-1942
“How unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever.”
Source: The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel
“How unconvincing. Try again.”
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
“How unfair it was that women have to make the choice to be nice or to be powerful.
“Don’t let what other people say, good or bad, pressure you into feeling small. The world does that enough to women. I won’t let it happen to my own sister.”
Source: Ladies of the House: A Modern Retelling of Sense and Sensibility
“How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn’t do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Over the years, how many women had seen their talents magically disappear in that way? How many men had seen talents they didn’t possess magically summoned into existence?”
Source: Where the Wild Ladies Are
“How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.”
“How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant”
Source: Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes
“How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'”
“How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.”
Source: The Illicit Happiness Of Other People
“How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.”
“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“How unhappy are those who keep missing the old days.”
“How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.”
“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
“How uninteresting interesting things can become.”
Source: Masquerade and other stories
“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”
Source: A Summer Bird-Cage
“How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.”
“How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.”
Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles
“How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.”
Source: China Men
“How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“How unpleasant to be judged poorly for a person you pretend to be. At least being authentic allows you to like yourself.”
Source: Love Resolutions: Get Your Heart Ready for Fulfilling Romance
“How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.”
“How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“How unsettling is desire! That devil never sleeps or keeps still. Desire is naughty and doesn’t conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent - no wonder people want it arrested and kept in a safe place. And just when we think we’ve got it under control it lets us down, or fills us with hope. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all. Still, rather a fool than a fascist.”
Source: Intimacy
“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!”
Source: Life and letters
“How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.”
“How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.”
“How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.”
“How use doth breed a habit in a man.”
“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”