Quotes about Rarity

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together.

But if you have so much fun, then why don't you get together more than once a month?' She looked at me like a wise old owl and winked. 'Do something too often and it stops being special.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things

Scarcity, as we've seen, is the secret to value. If there wasn't a Dip, there'd be no scarcity.

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.

Job! It was such a rare thing to find a patient man that when one was really discovered they were determined he shouldn't be forgotten,' retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.