Seldom Quotes

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The cautious seldom err.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.