Rarely Quotes

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

When men think much, they can rarely decide.

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent – what a rare relief.