#hardly

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. ↗

— Jane Austen

#business #does #ever #friendship #hardly

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #climate #daily #dwellers #enjoyment

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#does #experience #fact #hardly #in fact

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#hardly #principles #rigidly #see #sticks

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me. ↗

— Phil Collins

#happen #hardly #hate #honestly #i

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#believe #books #could #had #hardly

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. ↗

— William Dampier

#apt #everything #fortune #good #hardly

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly