C. Elizabeth Quotes

One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

ignore the pain, play through it.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Through the days of love and celebration and joy, and through the dark days of mourning...the faithful horse has been with us always.

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

When I dream, I am ageless.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.