"Hair's-breadth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow, there is hope for you yet. If a man once gets sentimental, he desires to be normal above all things, for he has a crazy intuition that it is the normal which women really like, being themselves but a hair's-breadth from the commonplace. I suppose it is only another of the immortal errors with which ...
— The Half-Hearted • John Buchan
... are really conscious of is, not that he is there, but that the nerves of your hand have undergone a change. All you hear and see and touch and taste and smell are mere variations of your own condition, beyond which, even to the extent of a hair's-breadth, you cannot go. That anything answering to your impression exists outside of yourself is not a fact, but an inference, to which all validity would be denied by an idealist like Berkeley, or ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott
... his snuff, sideways eyeing this friend whose weakness he understood to a hair's-breadth. But he, too, had his weakness—that of yielding to be led away by ...
— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... I will not go a hair's-breadth out of my way for Dene or any other man. You forget your religion. I ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey
... by a compromise, the nomination of Mr. Hayes. Apart from the fact that Mr. Hayes was not elected, but obtained the position which he holds through, we will say, "the accident of an accident," his possession of the Presidency has not advanced the cause of Reform by a hair's-breadth. We do not need to discuss his appointments or his views or his consistency: it is sufficient to say that he has had neither the power nor the opportunity to institute Reform, and that no President, while other things are unchanged, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
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