When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alon...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it f...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alon...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Forgotten rimes, and college themes,/ Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;/ A mass of heterogeneous...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do ...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his educati...
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD It is to hope, though hope were lost.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouc...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a t...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Forgotten rimes, and college themes,/ Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes;/ A mass of heterogeneous...
ANNA BARBAULD You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his educati...
ANNA BARBAULD The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
ANNA BARBAULD It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays...
ANNA BARBAULD We can only love what we know
ANNA BARBAULD When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alon...
ANNA BARBAULD We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
ANNA BARBAULD But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
ANNA BARBAULD The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it f...
ANNA BARBAULD The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do ...
ANNA BARBAULD A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.
ANNA LETITIA WARING I'm a businesswoman, and Ms. is an appropriate form of address.
LETITIA BALDRIGE If the flu situation in your town is serious, cancel a large long-awaited party you had scheduled, b...
LETITIA BALDRIGE An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
LETITIA LANDON How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
LETITIA LANDON At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minu...
LETITIA BALDRIGE I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which ad...
LETITIA BALDRIGE What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: 'I'd love to have t...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they c...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
LETITIA BALDRIGE For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. Peo...
LETITIA BALDRIGE I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to danc...
LETITIA BALDRIGE The best thing we can do to save the planet is set a good example for our kids at home.
LETITIA BALDRIGE You'd be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner ...
LETITIA BALDRIGE When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.
LETITIA BALDRIGE You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.
LETITIA BALDRIGE If you're making a social call, don't call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people nee...
LETITIA BALDRIGE We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking ab...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's ...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too ...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to lea...
LETITIA BALDRIGE A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many p...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.
LETITIA BALDRIGE We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.
LETITIA BALDRIGE A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out o...
LETITIA BALDRIGE If you really screw up, send roses.
LETITIA BALDRIGE I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf.
LETITIA BALDRIGE For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good man...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
LETITIA BALDRIGE If you are someone's guest on a corporate jet, the most important thing to remember is not just ...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the v...
LETITIA BALDRIGE There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
LETITIA BALDRIGE I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.
LETITIA BALDRIGE Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. P...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who c...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal t...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we&#...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Backpacks are obtrusive. They're great for school kids and mountaineers, but a woman is supposed...
LETITIA BALDRIGE The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship ca...
LETITIA BALDRIGE It's nice to compliment people on what they're wearing, but don't make insincere complim...
LETITIA BALDRIGE To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.
LETITIA BALDRIGE Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o'er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Sav...
LETITIA LANDON Few, save the poor, feel for the poor
LETITIA LANDON We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
LETITIA LANDON No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
LETITIA LANDON As beautiful as woman's blush, - / As evanescent too.
LETITIA LANDON Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
LETITIA LANDON Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
LETITIA LANDON It is decidedly rude to make mistakes in e-mail, because the recipient will then have difficulty rea...
LETITIA BALDRIGE I was considered the luckiest of all the female gypsies since I landed the job as social secretary t...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; with...
LETITIA LANDON A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
LETITIA LANDON How disappointment tracks the steps of hope
LETITIA LANDON We're a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manne...
LETITIA BALDRIGE It's stylish to have people over. But unstylish to make them bring food. It's so tacky, maki...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had s...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold th...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Mom and Dad never told them, ... Nobody ever taught them. And now there are so many young people who...
LETITIA BALDRIGE Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue, As beautiful as woman's blu...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually la...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, sav...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensi...
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...
ANNA SEWELL My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away ...
ANNA KENDRICK I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
ANNA SILK 'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with th...
ANNA KENDRICK If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
ANNA PAQUIN I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they ha...
ANNA WINTOUR If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for...
ANNA WINTOUR Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pret...
ANNA KENDRICK What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few...
ANNA NEAGLE We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
ANNA FREUD It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
ANNA KENDRICK Tessa has an obsession with Target that I’ll never understand.
ANNA TODD It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it
ANNA TODD Just because he can't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he does't love you with everythi...
ANNA TODD Innovation is the calling card of the future.
ANNA ESHOO I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as imp...
ANNA PUMP I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I wa...
ANNA CAMP I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
ANNA SUI Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn't mean I don't still get an...
ANNA QUINDLEN I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessl...
ANNA QUINDLEN It is so easty to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes...It is so easy to exist instead...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the ...
ANNA QUINDLEN "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the...
ANNA QUINDLEN What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feelin...
ANNA PAVLOVA People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start t...
ANNA FRIEL It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male ...
ANNA WICKHAM I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ...
ANNA KENDRICK The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA Onze aarde hangt niet voor niets scheef. Het is een ironische onderstreping van al het zijn op haar ...
ANNA JAE Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America a...
ANNA FRIEL If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it...
ANNA BRADLEY I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
I have no faith in her when she is got:
I fear that sh...
ANNA WICKHAM No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.
ANNA PAVLOVA It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the s...
ANNA GODBERSEN Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that m...
ANNA MAGNANI I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a...
ANNA KENDRICK A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are
ANNA JAMESON Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never
ANNA JAMESON Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, a...
ANNA JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself
ANNA JAMESON Trust in my affection for you.
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocu...
ANNA KENDRICK I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consist...
ANNA QUINDLEN Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
ANNA GODBERSEN Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
ANNA WINTOUR If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
ANNA AKHMATOVA In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
ANNA QUINDLEN Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...
ANNA QUINDLEN That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-cit...
ANNA GODBERSEN No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own ...
ANNA BAYES My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in...
ANNA SEWELL All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an un...
ANNA KAVAN It is good people who make good places.
ANNA SEWELL The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerabilit...
ANNA FORD Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
ANNA FREUD Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
ANNA JAMESON In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually en...
ANNA JAMESON All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and j...
ANNA JAMESON I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is ther...
ANNA FREUD Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
ANNA FORD Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
ANNA CHENNAULT Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men a...
ANNA SEWELL The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the w...
ANNA QUINDLEN What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feel...
ANNA PAVLOVA Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
ANNA BRANCH The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become m...
ANNA GODBERSEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part o...
ANNA QUINDLEN I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype...
ANNA QUINDLEN I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is the...
ANNA FREUD A finished person is a boring person.
ANNA QUINDLEN There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new...
ANNA QUINDLEN Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a ...
ANNA LAPPE Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the...
ANNA QUINDLEN O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment ...
ANNA QUINDLEN We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by...
ANNA QUINDLEN While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarit...
ANNA KENDRICK It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotion...
ANNA FREUD I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
ANNA PAQUIN I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as...
ANNA PAQUIN In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Ye...
ANNA CHLUMSKY I was very adept at acquiring languages.
ANNA HELD Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother t...
ANNA QUINDLEN When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them w...
ANNA CHLUMSKY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR