Elizabeth Cadell Quotes

#1. Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway.

Elizabeth Cadell

#2. You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.

Elizabeth Cadell

#3. It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad.

Elizabeth Cadell

#4. Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced.

Elizabeth Cadell

#5. She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.

Elizabeth Cadell

#6. I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.

Elizabeth Cadell

#7. How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past?

Elizabeth Cadell