Top 460 Hardly Quotes

I’m hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.
James B. Stewart
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.
S.E. Cupp
When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
I can hardly think of an occasion when I’ve got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I’ve got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I’m not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
Charles Kennedy
We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours – I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.
Eddie the Eagle
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Igor Stravinsky
Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada y

Politics in America is like stale bread. It’s so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.
John Ruskin
My first book, ‘The Age of Wire and String,’ came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
Ben Marcus
Were Trump campaign officials the only ones engaging in questionable behavior regarding Russia? Hardly. The Clintons are in the same category.
Katie Pavlich
I’ve done stunts when I was hurting so bad I couldn’t hardly breathe and yet I would go ahead and do it.
Hal Needham
Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
Lord North
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn’t hardly cheat myself.
Roy Orbison
To be sure, we should all eat right, brush our teeth, and cut down on sweets, but that will hardly help us if we’re born with a condition that requires expensive treatment.
Thomas Frank
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.
Hallgrimur Helgason
Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.
James Lafferty
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
Robert Schumann
I hardly had any coaching until I joined Birmingham where I had Dave Watson for five years. He’s one of the best and I knew how important that was for me.
Jack Butland
When I was little, my parents took me to the San Diego Zoo. I was about 5 years old, and I got a tour of the zoo that hardly anybody else has ever had.
Lydia Hearst
There is hardly a facet of an Indian citizen that has not been touched by ISRO’s technology.
Rakesh Sharma
I think my first girlfriend and I hardly spoke to each other in the year we were going out. In fact we never even spoke to each other to formally break it off. For all I know she still thinks we’re together. Maybe in a parallel universe we’re very happy.
Ardal O’Hanlon
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
Jan Brett
People will meet me and say, ‘You’re not really a Tory.’ And I’ll say I’ve been a Tory all my life – my politics have hardly changed. It is about making a society that is just and kinder to people.
Anna Soubry
You know, when my grandfather died, we were told that his estate was worth about $30 million. And it turns out it was closer to a billion. So that’s hardly a rounding error.
Mary L. Trump
I haven’t had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It’s somewhat complicated to understand that. I’ve hardly ever spoken about it. You’re in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
Byron Katie
My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, ‘justice’ is hardly a self-defining term, and much smarter men than I have developed various definitions over the centuries. The class put Plato at one end and Nietzsche at the other, and off we went.
Paul S. Kemp
It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.
Stephen Gardiner
It’s hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn’t reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
How do you build a relationship when you’ve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don’t see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
Boris Becker
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
It was hardly their own shining abilities alone that allowed a son, two grandsons, and a son-in-law of Winston Churchill to make their way into parliament.
Linda Colley
I hardly own a sari.
Riya Sen
When I first started playing cricket for England, there was hardly any coverage.
Isa Guha
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
John Lydon
I don’t watch a lot of T.V., and I hardly ever have time to keep up with series, though I do love reruns of old favorites from my childhood like ‘Dr. Who’, ‘The Goodies’, and ‘Get Smart.’
Garth Nix
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.
Pliny the Elder
It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I

It’s funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.
Mick Rock
I’m hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
Frank Langella
I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
Jordan Peterson
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Mary Shelley
The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we’re hardly represented in the media and on television.
Nico Santos
A major focus of ‘Reality Hunger’ is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
David Shields
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I’m not a trained artist, I couldn’t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
Rene Auberjonois
I like my buddies to come out to shows on weekends, but they hardly ever get to any.
Cole Swindell
In the early 1980s, top athletes hardly got the kind of exposure needed.
P. T. Usha
I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn’t hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.
Robert Stack
I’m hardly Hollywood material – they’re interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It’s not a place that’s particularly interested in talent.
Juliet Stevenson
You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.
John Knoll
For ‘The Bestseller’… there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are.
Ravi Subramanian
You know, women have a history of just being – we’ve been told all our lives not to say – in the fifties you couldn’t say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television – and then gradually things have changed.
Cybill Shepherd
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra
I saw ‘The Theory of Everything,’ which I loved, but I’m afraid I hardly ever get to go to the cinema.
Fiona Bruce
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
Edouard Manet
Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
Eric Allin Cornell
I hardly ever remember my dreams.
Tyler Blackburn
Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
Kate Moss