C. Elizabeth Quotes

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

Business before pleasure.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress.

My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risqué for me."

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that.

I'm not good at going on the internet and trolling around and finding information.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.