C. Elizabeth Quotes

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

May the good God pardon all good men.

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

Eve is a twofold mystery.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

I like my coffee light.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.