Ethel M. Dell Quotes
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There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.
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I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.
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We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
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If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.
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What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
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People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.
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Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
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What we once fling away never comes again to us.
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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
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That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.
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Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
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I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.
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There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.