C. Elizabeth Quotes

Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Youth is a season that has no repose.

A woman only can understand a woman.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

The stars are so far, far away!

I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Fame is bought by happiness.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.