The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
John Strachan

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
Howard Hodgkin

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
Penelope Lively

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
Rudolf Hilferding

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

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.
Joe Henderson

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
Terence Fisher

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas Huxley

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'
Ellen Burstyn

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
Herman Melville

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Samuel Richardson

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.
Ernest Mandel