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