Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

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

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

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

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

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

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

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

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

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

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