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Legends are lessons; they ring with truths. — Elinor

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. — Elinor Glyn

I bear a little more than I can bear. — Elinor Wylie

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do. — Elinor Ostrom

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done. — Elinor Fuchs

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor... — Jane Austen

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
I bear a little more than I can bear. — Elinor Wylie

Yes, everything will be all right, thanks to Elinor! She could have sung and danced (not that she was much of a dancer and she was sitting in a car). — Cornelia Funke

Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets. — Firoozeh Dumas

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent — Elinor Smith

all good books are bad! — Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels — Elinor Ostrom

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. — Elinor Glyn

... Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched. — Jane Austen

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. — Stevie Smith

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen

I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing. — Elinor Florence

Only to be expected!' Elinor's voice almost cracked. Belligerent as a Bull Terrier, she marched up to him. — Cornelia Funke

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn

As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society. — Elinor Ostrom

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel. — Elinor Glyn

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose. — Elinor Wylie

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world — Elinor Carucci

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now. — Elinor Wylie

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen

Elinor, I have been cruelly used; but not by Willoughby. — Jane Austen

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Marianne Dashwood — Jane Austen

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen. — Elinor Glyn

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother. — Elinor Smith

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well. — Elinor Wylie

I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat. — Elinor Wylie

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap. — Elinor Glyn

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon. — Elinor Wylie

How much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. — Elinor Glyn

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping. — Elinor Lipman

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake. — Elinor Glyn

It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. — Jane Austen

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole. — Elinor Gadon

Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did. — Mary McCarthy

Perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read. — Cornelia Funke

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story, said Dustfinger at last. — Cornelia Funke

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye. — Cathleen Schine

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me. — Elinor Glyn

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. — Elinor Florence

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over. — Elinor Wylie

To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman. — Elinor Glyn

I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, ick! A horse! — Elinor Goulding Smith

I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs.
- Elinor — Cornelia Funke

The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong. — Elinor Wylie

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration. — Elinor Glyn

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain. — Elinor Ostrom

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts. — Elinor Lipman

Words are immortal - Elinor — Cornelia Funke

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station. — Elinor Lipman

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell. — Elinor Dewire

From life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor. — Malinda Lo

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it. — Anita Loos

I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get. — Elinor Wylie

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. — Elinor Glyn

All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. — Elinor Glyn

Everything that I write will be signed with my name. — Elinor Glyn

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman

I see something that has to be done and I organize it. — Elinor Guggenheimer

Organizing is a process; an organization is the result of that process. — Elinor Ostrom

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. — Elinor Glyn