Quotations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
- Edith Wharton quotes
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
- Thomas Carlyle quotes
Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
- Frank Crane quotes
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom
Nor forced him wander, but confined him home (The Rebel Scot)
- John Cleveland quotes
Had I been a man, I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was, my spirit found outlet in the air.
- Amy Johnson quotes
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W B Yeats quotes
Had to give other people a chance [when asked why he had sacked his agent]
- Adrian Mutu quotes
Had W G Grace been born in ancient Greece, the Iliad would have been a different book.
- Bishop Of Hereford quotes
Had we had another injury to one of our central defenders, I would have had to put a full-back in there - and neither of them can head the ball!
- Harry Redknapp quotes
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
- Thomas Traherne quotes
Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?
- James Oppenheim quotes
Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.
- Ray Clemence quotes
Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle,
And Heaven's peculiar care! (The Chase)
- William Somerville quotes
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
- Hubert De Givenchy quotes
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin quotes
Half of this award should go to my wigs [1996 BAFTA Awards talking about her wigs]
- Jennifer Ehle quotes
Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open, that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
- Victor Cherbuliez quotes
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
- Lionel Barrymore quotes
Halfway through the first half I wish I could have gone a bit further than New Zealand!
- Alan Curbishley quotes
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
- Kahlil Gibran quotes
Hamilton is a great driver, but there are lots of great drivers in Formula One who did not have his package
- Jensen Button quotes
Hang-gliding will be commonplace by the year 2000. They will be the bicycles of the air.
- Martin Hunt quotes
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen quotes
Hansel and Gretel and Dizzy's double hundred - they're one and the same. An absolute fairytale. [on getting a double century in a test match]
- Jason Gillespie quotes
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington quotes
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton quotes
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
- John Stossel quotes
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
- John Mason Good quotes
Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
- Fedor Dostoevsky quotes
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
- Douglas William Jerrold quotes
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway quotes
Happiness in old age is, more than anything else, preserving the privileges of privacy.
- Harold Azine quotes
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
- Deepak Chopra quotes
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
- Sydney Harris quotes
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
- Iris Murdoch quotes
Happiness is a positive cash flow.
- Fred Adler quotes
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
- Thomas Szasz quotes
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
- Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
- Alphonse Karr quotes
