C. Elizabeth Quotes

Don't mess with me, Calvin. You'll only get hurt.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.

A good face is the best letter of recommendation.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

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

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

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

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

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

There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.