Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr. , De jeune hermite, vieil diable. ]
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.
I am such a notorious hermit - almost pathological. And, I'm not a hoarder. But that's just a symptom of things that I do feel.
Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.
I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.
I've always been kind of a hermit.
If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.
You’re a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.
Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.