Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie quotes:
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Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
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If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
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People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
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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.
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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.
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Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.
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Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
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It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
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love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
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Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.
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Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
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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.
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A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.
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A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
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All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
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All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
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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.
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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!
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entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...
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In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
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Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
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Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
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There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
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To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
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To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
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We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
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What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
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When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
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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.