Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes & Sayings

#1. There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

#2. To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#3. Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#4. Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

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#5. People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

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#8. If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

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#9. Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

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#10. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

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#11. 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!

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

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#15. We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

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#16. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

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#17. 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.

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#18. A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

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#19. It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

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#20. 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.

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie