I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

- Emmeline Pankhurst

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

- Hilaire Belloc

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

- P. T. Barnum

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

- Russell Hoban

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

- William Hazlitt