Countess Elizabeth von Arnim ("Countess Elizabeth Mary Russell") quote: "Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand."

Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot h...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

What a happy woman I am living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of le...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make u...
COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau...
MARY ARNIM

Always be free or die trying
MARY ELIZABETH

all I want is someone to hold me if they cared
MARY ELIZABETH

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. ...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boist...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly m...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, an...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and prog...
MARY ELIZABETH LEASE

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way ...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my frien...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodiga...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, W...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
MARY ELIZABETH LEASE

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things p...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can p...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand wi...
MARY ELIZABETH FRYE

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds t...
MARY ELIZABETH FRYE

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the i...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking t...
MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO

To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the noisier, t...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life—this unflinching regularity in the sma...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

What had been his love for his first wife but a poor, pitiful, smouldering spark, too dull to be dis...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can c...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been t...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, ...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or how...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

[...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a sm...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

We hear every day of murders committed in the country. Brutal and treacherous murders; slow, protrac...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Sir Harry Towers cares.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emo...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully;...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD

There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG

Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN

Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitti...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you wan...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

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Countess Elizabeth von Arnim ("Countess Elizabeth Mary Russell")

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

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