Quotes About Scantiness

Nevertheless, the number of hoots I give for them is restricted to less than two.

At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life... I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Armed to the teeth? He had not even a knitting-needle.