Elizabeth Aston Quotes

#1. Sense is apt to fly out of the window when a girl falls in love.

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#2. Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

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#3. When we are young, we make gods and goddesses of one another, then we soon come to realize that we are all merely human and imperfect.

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#4. You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

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#5. A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

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#6. Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

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#7. You'll meet someone else; there are more fish in the sea, as the saying is, than ever came out of it.

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#8. Innocence might be its own reward, but when it boardered on naivete, if not stupidity, it was unforgivable.

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#9. Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

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#10. People make one happy, not houses.

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#11. Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.

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#12. The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

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#13. We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

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#14. What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

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#15. Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

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#16. Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

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#17. One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love

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#18. When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

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#19. You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

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#20. It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

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#21. Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

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#22. There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

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#23. It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

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#24. How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

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#25. It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

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#26. One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

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#27. People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

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#28. Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

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#29. There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

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