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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.


Elizabeth Hardwick

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ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK