#hardly

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #gets #hardly #irony #life

Sex is hardly ever just about sex. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ever #hardly #just #sex

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#hardly #i #i can #plays #should

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#dreadfully #hardly #knows #managed #whom

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught. ↗

— Pat Brown

#being #brought #business #caught #famous

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#hardly #honest #knows #man #principle

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#else #famous #hardly #i #places