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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.


Edith Sitwell

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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DIANA VREELAND So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. An...
ANATOLE FRANCE As long as the reasoning behind this is for public safety and is not seen as anything other than tha...
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JAMI RUBIN The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever...
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MAY SARTON I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want...
ARCHIE PANJABI Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No decent career was ever founded on a public.
SOURCE UNKNOWN As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the diff...
RICHARD WHATELY Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power--so long as i...
ERNEST HOLMES I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.
WILL ROGERS There are people saying Venezuela is a dictatorship country; the funny thing is that they say it on ...
JAIRO FERNáNDEZ Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and...
DANIEL KEYS MORAN The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on...
THOMAS PAINE In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.
Whichever wins, future will beli...
TOBA BETA I will not believe anything until I see it is inked in blood.
COMMISSIONER MIGUEL TERAN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY This is just the first step on a long path. One good performance will not win anything.
MARCELO BIELSA It doesn't really change anything. It's not like people will get their jobs back or their retirement...
BETHANY MCLEAN The fact of secrecy makes the public question the truthfulness of what is made public. The final res...
JACK N The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a w...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Some workers believe that if they tell the truth [about a child], the foster parent isn't going to s...
JEAN FIORITO I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
KRISTEN STEWART People can believe anything that they want. Despite how disorganized it may seem to the all-knowing ...
DALE MURRAY I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group right...
CLARENCE THOMAS As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth yo...
PEMA CHODRON [However, opponents believe it is another step on the road to so-called] Frankenstein babies ... Thi...
JOSEPHINE QUINTAVALLE That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL An Innocent Man Is Never Frightened By the Truth; But A Guilty Man Will Try To Hide It As Long As He...
PATTY RASE HOPSON Anything but a quarter percentage point move will get a reaction. A 50 basis point move would see a ...
ART HOGAN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
EDITH SITWELL Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
EDITH SITWELL I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
EDITH SITWELL I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
EDITH SITWELL Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
EDITH SITWELL Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...
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The carriage brushes through the bright
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EDITH SITWELL All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little cons...
JONATHAN SWIFT Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long a...
WILLIAM JAMES The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and...
DIXIE LEE RAY Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum...
IRIS MURDOCH You can be anything you want to be, as long as you believe in yourself.
MICHELLE WORTHINGTON For how long will you keep on wandering around for infinite lifetimes? Your own light is not there. ...
DADA BHAGWAN I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group r...
CLARENCE THOMAS I'm not so vain as to believe that my involvement changes anything whatsoever.
DANNY GLOVER don't ever give up on the fairy tale........... when you do it becomes certain that it will never ha...
ANJIE HENLEY There's an image issue here. Even though the quality of many American cars is as good, if not equal ...
DANIEL GORRELL There's an image issue here. Even though the quality of many American cars is as good, if not equal ...
DANIEL GORRELL It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
CHARLES MONROE SCHULZ I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnersh...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN This is yet another in a series of attacks on the religious traditions on which our nation was found...
KEVIN MARTIN Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can ...
CURTIS CARLSON mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.
RICK RIORDAN When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take th...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and juri...
EZRA STILES Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them, Must first induce you to b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within prope...
PATRICK HENRY You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as ...
KATHY CYR Public perception. That's really the only downside .... the public was used to having the president ...
JOE CARDONA Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security i...
PETER THIEL Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
EDITH STEIN Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt
HENRIK IBSEN What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
HENRY MILLER I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transfer...
FRED EHRSAM Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
BUDDHA Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau...
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EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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EDITH SITWELL Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
DAME EDITH SITWELL Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...
DAME EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
DAME EDITH SITWELL Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
DAME EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred...
DAME EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
DAME EDITH SITWELL Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...
DAME EDITH SITWELL Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
DAME EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
DAME EDITH SITWELL Good taste is the worst vice ever invented
DAME EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
DAME EDITH SITWELL The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
DAME EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
DAME EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
DAME EDITH SITWELL It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees
DAME EDITH SITWELL I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of art
DAME EDITH SITWELL I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.
OSBERT SITWELL The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over i...
OSBERT SITWELL I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. - Wisdom.
OSBERT SITWELL For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything
SIR OSBERT SITWELL It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional ...
SIR OSBERT SITWELL True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.
EDITH WIDDER Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a ...
EDITH WIDDER One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably...
EDITH WIDDER We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecti...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made ...
EDITH WIDDER In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapago...
EDITH WIDDER It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent ...
EDITH WIDDER I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organ...
EDITH WIDDER I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurre...
EDITH WIDDER The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
EDITH WIDDER If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the anima...
EDITH WIDDER Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sp...
EDITH WIDDER For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bio...
EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
EDITH WIDDER It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that...
EDITH WIDDER Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in ...
EDITH WIDDER We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there...
EDITH WIDDER There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tel...
EDITH WIDDER During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would s...
EDITH WIDDER Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw...
EDITH WIDDER I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin...
EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ...
EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD