Top 100 Hannah More Quotes
#1. I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is. - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#2. Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
Eugene Field
#3. Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#4. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.
Kristin Hannah
#5. She wanted to be with him, and though the realization frightened her, it also set her heart racing with anticipation. When she was with Nick, she was a different woman. Some of his glitter fell onto her and made her feel beautiful and sparkly and more alive.
Kristin Hannah
#6. Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.
Kristin Hannah
#7. A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
Hannah More
#8. The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
Hannah More
#9. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
Hannah More
#10. A small unkindness is a great offence.
Hannah More
#11. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Hannah More
#12. Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.
Hannah Arendt
#13. In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
Hannah More
#14. This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#15. When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
Hannah More
#16. It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
Hannah More
#17. We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
Hannah More
#18. O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
Hannah More
#19. It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
Hannah More
#20. It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.)
Kristin Hannah
#21. She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.
Kristin Hannah
#23. People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!
Hannah Storm
#24. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#25. The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
Hannah Arendt
#26. We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
Daryl Hannah
#27. Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
Daryl Hannah
#28. It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.
Hannah Arendt
#29. Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices
Hannah More
#30. Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.
Hannah More
#31. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other.
Kristin Hannah
#32. My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
Hannah More
#33. The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
Hannah Arendt
#34. Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah More
#35. Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
Hannah Arendt
#36. One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.
Kristin Hannah
#37. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
Hannah More
#38. Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
Hannah Arendt
#39. Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
Hannah More
#41. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.
Hannah More
#42. Love never reasons but profusely gives ... gives like a thoughtless prodigal, it's all and trembles then, lest it has done too little.
Hannah More
#43. Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.
Hannah Hurnard
#44. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. ... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
#45. The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.
Hannah More
#46. What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.
Hannah More
#47. As my tastes evolved I started to crave more and more danger in my boyfriends and my music
Hannah Wilde
#48. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?
Kristin Hannah
#49. The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.
Hannah More
#50. Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
Karen Swallow Prior
#51. We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
Hannah More
#52. Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Hannah More
#53. I want the faith that there will be some kind of an answer, something more than these endless questions taking up so much space in my head, this feeling that nothing matters and nothing has a point.
Hannah Harrington
#54. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
Hannah Moskowitz
#55. I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
Hannah Simone
#56. In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
Hannah More
#57. Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
Hannah More
#58. Husbands were to be avoided in the pre-thirty years. There was always time for marriage and children; was the common refrain. You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.
Kristin Hannah
#59. He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
Hannah More
#60. Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
Hannah More
#61. The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
Hannah More
#62. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
Hannah Arendt
#63. If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.
Hannah More
#64. Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me.
Kristin Hannah
#65. The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
Hannah More
#66. The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.
Sophie Hannah
#67. God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.
Karen Swallow Prior
#68. People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.
Hannah More
#69. I have more fun playing Hannah, because I like to sing and dress up.
Miley Cyrus
#70. It would not have done Poirot any good whatever to state that his wishes were the precise opposite of hers in this respect. Nothing fascinated him more than the private passions of strangers he would probably never meet again.
Sophie Hannah
#71. You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
Hannah Whitall Smith
#72. Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
#73. Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
Hannah More
#74. Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.
Hannah More
#75. Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
Hannah More
#76. Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
Hannah More
#77. You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.
Kristen Hannah
#78. When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
Hannah More
#79. Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
Hannah More
#80. Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
Hannah More
#81. In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
#82. He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.
Hannah Harrington
#83. Bible Christianity is what I love ... a Christianity practical and pure, which teaches holiness, humility, repentance and faith in Christ; and which after summing up all the Evangelical graces, declares that the greatest of these is charity .
Hannah More
#84. Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...
Hannah More
#85. Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
Hannah More
#86. He didn't subscribe to the view ... that spirituality was a fast track to happiness. He believed the opposite was true: spiritual people suffered more than most.
Sophie Hannah
#87. I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
Hannah Kent
#88. Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
Hannah More
#89. If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.
Sophie Hannah
#90. I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
Hannah Storm
#91. Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Hannah More
#92. We contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.
Hannah More
#93. To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities ... than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
Hannah Arendt
#94. Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah More
#95. Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
Hannah More
#96. Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
Hannah More
#97. It is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
Hannah More
#98. A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Hannah More
#99. Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Hannah More
#100. The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.
Kristin Hannah
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