C. Elizabeth Quotes

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

There is nothing like champagne to ensure sweet dreams.

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

Th' longest lane will have a turning.

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.

A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

A girl in love will do a good deal.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

How different men were to women!

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Look back. Look back at me." Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.