Carolyn Wells Quotes
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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.
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself
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A living gale is better than a dead calm.
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Of two evils choose the prettier.
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A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
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The way to do some things is to do them.
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musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
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I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
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Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
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To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
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A profit is not without honor save in Boston.
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Every dogma must have its day.
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I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
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I'm just the same age I've always been.
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Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
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A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
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how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.
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All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.
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Society's the mother of convention.