Elizabeth Aston Quotes

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

People make one happy, not houses.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.