Elinor Glyn Quotes

#1. Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

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#2. American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

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#3. Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.

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#4. All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.

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#5. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

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#6. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

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#7. Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

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#8. I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

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#9. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

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#10. How much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

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#11. No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

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#12. To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman.

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#13. The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.

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#14. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

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#15. I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

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#16. Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

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#17. Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

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#18. A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

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#19. American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

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