Lucinda Elliot > Lucinda's Quotes

“The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”-”
― Confucius

“On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.”
― Lucinda Elliot

“God help us, God help all of us, each one, every one, all of us'. Patrick Hamilton at the concusion of 'The Slaves of Solitude'.”
― Patrick Hamilton

“The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Hatred is a failure of imagination.'
Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.”
― Graham Greene

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“Whatever is deeply, essentially female--the life in a woman's expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin--is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease. These qualities are about an intensification of female power, which explains why they are being recast as a diminution of power. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not exist on the woman's body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face?”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
if not this parting was well made.”
― one William Shakespeare

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”
― A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad

“I am sure that those who are addicted to sending Christmas Round Robins could give it up if they tried; they might find it difficult at first, but it would be worth the effort in the end.”
― Lucinda Elliot

“Bad reviews mean I am putting my book into the wrong peoples' hands.”
― Craig Martelle, Become a Successful Indie Author - 3rd Edition: Work Toward Your Writing Dream

“O Goneril! You are not worth the dust the rude wind blows in your face. I fear your disposition.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I will lend you, for a little time,‬
‪A child of mine, He said.‬
‪For you to love the while he lives,‬
‪And mourn for when he's dead.‬
‪It may be six or seven years,‬
‪Or twenty-two or three.‬
‪But will you, till I call him back,‬
‪Take care of him for Me?‬
‪He'll bring his charms to gladden you,‬
‪And should his stay be brief.‬
‪You'll have his lovely memories,‬
‪As solace for your grief.‬
‪I cannot promise he will stay,‬
‪Since all from earth return.‬
‪But there are lessons taught down there,‬
‪I want this child to learn.‬
‪I've looked the wide world over,‬
‪In search for teachers true.‬
‪And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,‬
‪I have selected you.‬
‪Now will you give him all your love,‬
‪Nor think the labour vain.‬
‪Nor hate me when I come‬
‪To take him home again?‬
‪I fancied that I heard them say,‬
‪'Dear Lord, Thy will be done!'‬
‪For all the joys Thy child shall bring,‬
‪The risk of grief we'll run.‬
‪We'll shelter him with tenderness,‬
‪We'll love him while we may,‬
‪And for the happiness we've known,‬
‪Forever grateful stay.‬
‪But should the angels call for him,‬
‪Much sooner than we've planned.‬
‪We'll brave the bitter grief that comes,‬
‪And try to understand.‬
‪From The Book LIVING THE YEARS 1949 ‬”
― Edgar Albert Guest

“A life without adventure is a dull life!”
― Ming Wei

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”
― Mae West

“We admire people for their courage, we honour people for their integrity, but we love people for reasons we don't understand.”
― Lucinda Elliot

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous