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Edith Sitwell
Related The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... DAME EDITH SITWELL And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER Men do not attract what they want, but what they are. JAMES ALLEN The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Your health is your most valuable commodity. People should at least give as much attention to their ... DR. WARREN DOWNHOUR Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL This is the most important test they will take the entire time they are in high school. Because if t... KAREN OWENS They were nice boos, ... They had to do that because they had nothing else to do. I am not paying at... RON ARTEST As you evolve, the friends and lovers you attract will be of a higher caliber. Embrace that fact and... SHANE ERIC MATHIAS ““People do not attract that which they want but that which they are. Change what you are to wha... CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they d... PAUL GRAHAM Holy words, blessings of guru, visiting religious empire daily will not help you if you do not act u... DR. SHAILESH THAKER With the economy as good as it's been, small employers simply haven't been able to attract and retai... BILL CAREY In the private sector if somebody is not happy with a job, and they do not think they are being comp... JASON BAKER Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all... BRUCE WILKINSON The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. BILL SHANKLY “People do not attract that which they want but that which they are. Change what you are to what y... CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM SPADI The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has a cleavage; they ought to worry if she has... MARILYN MONROE Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention f... ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what the... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The deadline is set and they think I am their pet. SANTOSH KALWAR Another benefit of this is that it will bring the brightest, most talented college graduates in the ... CAROL COLETTA There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they... EVA FIGES It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they ha... EVA FIGES 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a... BRIGITTE BOISSELIER The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn'... MARILYN MONROE How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitw... ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER Where most manufacturers are coming down on this is they want to work with traditional retailers in ... MARK LARSON Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ... RICHARD WIDMARK We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou... SIDNEY MADWED Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without... VISSARION BELINSKY People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (To put it
another way: When yo... JAMES ALLEN Nerds just don't happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they d... PAUL GRAHAM The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do... JEAN PAUL GAULTIER The sit-in ... is to draw attention to the judges. They (the police) thought that if they can remove... HANY ENAN Nick has never been in the ring with a man. He will be in the ring with a man if he decides to fight... GEORGE LINBERGER The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. Yo... DIANA VREELAND If you are no trouble to your children now, they will be a trouble to you when they grow up. VIKRANT PARSAI To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what t... ERIC HOFFER The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn&... MARILYN MONROE They know they're the star. They know they want to get in that dress. They become the perfect client... JASON STUCKEY Today's population is different from the previous generation. The past generation would do without. ... DAN MEUSER They can dress it up as much as they want, but it's a regular event with a big purse. It's a great e... DAVID TOMS It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they p... NEAL STEPHENSON It's been a little bit of a struggle for those guys, but they felt they had to do what they had to d... BART SCHOUTEN Those are the most successful people if they go to a class. When they come and just want to do a mac... JENNIFER ANDERSON Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its impl... STOCKWELL DAY We will take advantage to differentiate our product. Tennessee and Virginia will do the same thing. ... ERNIE PASSAILAIGUE Any price is negotiable. We've had the listing about a year, which is not a long time in the big boa... GERRY HULL I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw yo... DAMON GALGUT We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual. FLORENCE PATERNO If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the worl... IRVINE WELSH The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know... JOHANN VON GOETHE The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in DENNIS POTTER Most voters focus their attention on candidates they believe have a reasonable chance of becoming pr... BILL LUNCH I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we ... DANNY BROWN The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon ... NEWTON DIEHL BAKER Randolph is a much improved team from previous years. In the past, they would only have a handful of... KATHLEEN MCCARTHY The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the or... LAURA INGALLS WILDER The next couple employment reports will attract an extraordinary degree of attention in the markets.... ANTHONY KARYDAKIS Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and whe... ISABEL WILKERSON If you help people when they are in trouble,then what people do if trouble is you... AJAY KUMAR They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star... DEYTH BANGER "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I was a victim of violence... No reason for vileonce just few sucirity guards came... we were 3... t... DEYTH BANGER Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans. DEYTH BANGER This is our opportunity to build deeper relationships with our customers. We see this as a way to pr... DAVID HUDSON The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercur... CAROLINE DEWAAL The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercur... CAROLINE SMITH DEWAAL emboldened by what they see as a compliant racing commission that will rubber-stamp whatever they wa... ALAN FOREMAN Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to... W. H. AUDEN They had to pay a lot to attract her. They also had to pay a fortune to get her out. CARLY FIORINA If I were sitting in North Korea, I wouldn't be too worried. We know the United States is tied down ... LEONARD SPECTOR They are by far the best team we've played. They had a lot of trouble shooting early in the season, ... BOB MARLIN Most of the time when they do it, it is a situation they know they've got a window that they can get... EDDIE WOOD It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, b... ERNIE ANKRIM There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth... ALLAN BLOOM But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN Regardless of whether or not they contribute, they will need medical attention and they will need to... ANDREW HOLNESS [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse... LINDA PERLSTEIN The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKI Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If you really act like a celebrity, the security guards will worry that they will get into trouble f... ALEX MAMLET Documented celebrity cars always fetch a great deal of attention at our auctions. And when they're t... CRAIG JACKSON A few of the things we learned (by watching the Palisade game) is that Moffat is not down. Comparati... DAMON WELLS If he said that, he's an idiot, ... They can do whatever they want here, say whatever they want, inc... JOSE VICENTE RANGEL Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant. JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU They can do whatever they want to with it. It's their money. For these youngsters, it's no different... LEROY SHAFER If the best they can do in telling us what is right with them and what is wrong with us is that they... PHIL GRAMM Most people have not started thinking about the political aspect of the aid, ... But when they do, t... HUSAIN HAQQANI Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want,... C.S. LEWIS Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings... DALAI LAMA XIV The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose... JANE JACOBS
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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 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 The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. 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 ... EDITH SITWELL Solo For Ear-Trumpet The carriage brushes through the bright Leaves (vi... EDITH SITWELL All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why ... DAME EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. DAME EDITH SITWELL Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. DAME EDITH SITWELL I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-f... 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. DAME EDITH SITWELL When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from whic... DAME EDITH SITWELL I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ... 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. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... 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