Top 100 Quotes About Harmless
#1. The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
William Butler Yeats
#2. Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times ... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.
Dana Gould
#4. Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would a Larry de Luce have been more understanding?
'Hell, no!' I shouted into the wind ...
Alan Bradley
#5. No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.
Mark Twain
#6. I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.
Richard Dawkins
#7. The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#8. Who determines whether a secret is harmless or not?
J.M. Denholme
#9. The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve.
Robert Scheid
#10. Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place ... not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!
Whitney Port
#12. You? Harmless?" Tam snorted.
"What? You don't think I could pull it off?" Aiden accused.
"Well, the fact that you're practically a walking armory had me convinced otherwise.
Claire M. Banschbach
#13. I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.
Jeff Bingaman
#14. Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
John Webster
#15. September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.
Geoffrey Hill
#16. Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.
Josh Billings
#17. How little commoners understood, Eshram thought, shaking his head. Most witches were good people, harmless. They only wanted to be one with nature, and were simply misunderstood.
David Bernstein
#18. We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.
Tony Vigorito
#20. The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Maria Edgeworth
#21. O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
And all the good embrace, who know the grave
A short dark passage to eternal light.
William Davenant
#22. George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover]
'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.
George Harrison
#23. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton
#24. Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.
Sherrie Krantz
#25. Turtles are not the innocent, harmless creatures everyone thinks they are. Mark my words. They're secretly planning to take over the world. And then where will we be?
Darynda Jones
#26. In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.
Isaac Asimov
#27. How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.
Richelle Mead
#28. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#29. You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
Tennessee Williams
#30. Harmless as a setting dove," he agreed. "I'm too hungry to be a threat to anything but breakfast. Let a stray bannock come within reach, though, and I'll no answer for the consequences.
Diana Gabaldon
#31. The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.
Toni Morrison
#32. Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Ilana Mercer
#33. Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt their presence here and there in his brain, like pockets of poison, harmless as long as you left them encysted and did not prick them.
Fritz Leiber
#34. Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
Sappho
#35. What a joy walking is. All the cares of life, all the hopeless, inept fuckwits that God has strewn along the Bill Bryson Highway of Life suddenly seem far away and harmless, and the world becomes tranquil and welcoming and good.
Bill Bryson
#36. Look at her. She looks so harmless and meek, but inside she's a lion. Tory is an adrenaline junkie the likes of which you've probably never seen ... everything from deep-sea diving to base jumping. Hell, she even jumps out of perfectly good airplanes for fun. (Pam)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But "epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#39. There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
David Hume
#40. Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death.
Lester Grinspoon
#41. I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens
#42. Josie watched him leave then turned to me. "I swear to God, if I had the money, you'd be the one making cookies while he slobbers all over you." "You're the one who said he was harmless." I reached under the counter to get a box ready for Ellen's order.
Catherine Bruns
#43. I thought we were gonna take this relationship slow."
"A back rub is harmless."
My eyes roam over her kick-ass bikini-covered bod. "I'll have you know I've been intimate with girls wearin' a lot more.
Simone Elkeles
#44. Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
Sue Townsend
#45. Nature meant for me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden
#47. I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard.
John Green
#48. Be ye therefore as wise as the serpents and as harmless as the doves.
Paulo Coelho
#49. More than 95 percent of the world's bacteria are harmless to humans. Many are extremely beneficial. Disinfectants have no place in a normal household. They are appropriate only if a family member is sick or the dog poops on the carpet.
Giulia Enders
#50. There are two ways to stay safe, Reen's voice whispered to her. Either be so quiet and harmless that people ignore you, or be so dangerous that they're terrified of you.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. All you need, you think, is a breather, a few minutes standing up at the bar like in the old days, having a harmless bottle of beer. Only the bottle of beer isn't harmless; it's a trigger. It sets off that crazy thing in your mind that made you a dipso in the first place ...
Jonathan Craig
#52. There is no such thing as a harmless truth.
Gregory Nunn
#53. I'm not over-reacting, but I do think people have to be a bit cautious when they say all kind of activities associated with witchcraft are harmless.
Peter Hollingworth
#54. If I had known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.
Philip K. Dick
#55. The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morning
sun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn't bite. Humans were mostly harmless.
Cole Alpaugh
#56. No. I just like dabbing girls' faces with napkins. It's a fetish of mine. Don't worry - my shrink says it's harmless.
Zoe Sugg
#57. None of those things should have mattered, but I guess they did. I guess they were like water. Soft and harmless until enough time went by. Then all of a sudden you found yourself with the Grand Canyon on your hands.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#58. Writing is harmless, and it keeps me in dinners and out of trouble.
Paul Bowles
#59. Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.
Philip Roth
#60. One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.
Richard Rohr
#61. The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
Haruki Murakami
#62. 1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us"
2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest"
3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty
Beth Hoffman
#63. We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.
Richard Dawkins
#64. If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
Philip K. Dick
#65. I finally shook myself out of my reticence.
He was just a boy. He was harmless. He had a girlfriend who was gorgeous and sociable. I would calibrate my smiles and interactions to friendship or acquaintance level. No big deal.
Penny Reid
#67. We will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
N. T. Wright
#68. Scarlet could feel everyone's curious gazes switching between her and the princess. She cleared her throat. "She's harmless," she said. "I'm pretty sure." Winter
Marissa Meyer
#69. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
Billy Graham
#70. Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
*Harmless untruths
Kurt Vonnegut
#71. We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
Judith Martin
#72. He's a gentle giant, harmless and soft, like a teddy bear.
Except deep down, I know he's not.
And when his eyes cut my way, and I see the darkness on the surface, I'm reminded that this man hangs out with monsters.
And one might even exist inside of him.
J.M. Darhower
#73. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
Jennifer Echols
#74. Tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits.
John Gardner
#75. The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler
Albert Einstein
#76. Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.
Travis Bradberry
#77. Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
#78. You're clear, Mr. Duke." Grins from both of them. What could Felix possibly be suspected of smuggling, a harmless old thespian like him? It's the words that should concern you, he thinks at them. That's the real danger. Words don't show up on scanners.
Margaret Atwood
#79. Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
Amy Waldman
#80. O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#81. I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins
#82. She still stood in front of the garden tub, the piece of glass in her hand, and she stared back at me like an animal cornered.
In that moment she didn't remind me of a harmless little kitten. She was a full-grown tigress, and she still looked like she wanted to do some damage.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#83. Cleia sighed and suddenly he understood what was wrong. She didn't want harmless. She wanted danger.
Rebecca Rivard
#84. What she did was harmless. What you did, man, was begging to get laid.
Piper Shelly
#85. Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.
from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
Mariam Masood
#86. I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!
Stephenie Meyer
#87. And you, you worthless - ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash - .
Emily Bronte
#88. 'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.
Colin Hanks
#89. You got a vicious animal inside you. It wants to snap, it wants to attack, but it's harmless because some woman fitted a muzzle on it. Now, how do you imagine it feels about that muzzle? How do you think it will regard the woman the moment that muzzle is off, and she is within biting distance?
Thomm Quackenbush
#90. It begins with a spark that ignites into an inferno, and while a spark is harmless, an inferno almost always burns. You are the spark, Rose.
Caprice Rose
#91. He's harmless, poor thing. That's what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.
Franny Billingsley
#92. You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.
John Grisham
#93. Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.
Richard Dawkins
#94. It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the
world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow
themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.
Margaret Sanger
#95. Oh shit, I was just flirting with the waitress a little. It was harmless. I told her those jeans must be from outer space because her ass is out of this world." "Oh my
Elle Parker
#96. Being harmless means being so strong, so empowered, that the idea of showing power through harm is not even a part of your consciousness.
Gary Zukav
#97. Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.
Bruce Schneier
#99. What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
Philip Kaufman
#100. I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
Noel Gallagher
