Carolyn Wells Quotes

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Carolyn Wells

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• I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Book
  • Numbers
  • Incredibles

• What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Body
  • Literature
  • Magazines

• 'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Giving
  • Blessed
  • Christmas

• Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Giving
  • Advice
  • Blessed

• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Pride
  • Library
  • Apology

• Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Imagination
  • Results
  • Contentment

• I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Wish
  • Eye
  • Library

• The wages of sin is alimony.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Alimony

• A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Mind

• Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Car

• When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Men
  • Uplifting
  • Aspiration

• Where there's a will there's a detective story.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Stories
  • Detectives

• One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Firsts
  • Principles
  • Perseverance

• At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Nature
  • Unnatural

• Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Wall
  • Streets
  • Broke

• A fool and his money are soon married.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Money
  • Fool
  • Married

• Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Advice
  • Devil
  • Interference

• I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Gifts
  • Tides

• Of two evils choose the prettier.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Evil

• Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Today
  • Advice
  • Drug

• Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Care
  • Common
  • Dignity

• I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Effort
  • Achieve
  • Prove