Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

Love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.