Caroline Blackwood Quotes

#1. There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.

Caroline Blackwood

#2. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

David Salle

#3. The Coming of Wisdom with Time
Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

W.B.Yeats

#4. Only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world.
Powerful.

Cornelia Funke

#5. Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.

Caroline Blackwood

#6. Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

Brett Dennen

#7. She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.

Caroline Blackwood

#8. Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.

Caroline Blackwood

#9. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.

Caroline Blackwood

#10. Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

Satchel Paige

#11. We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

Pope Francis

#12. If your strengths don't, then your weakness's will soon define you.

Sachin Kumar Puli

#13. As you get older no doubt you'll change automatically, just like I did. You will learn all the tricks. You will dress much better, and talk much more, and listen much less. And you'll start to realise that it never does one much good to take anything too seriously at all.

Caroline Blackwood

#14. There's a strange something, which without a brain
Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain,
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,
In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Charles Churchill

#15. I feel like people who don't brag are trying to make you jealous by thinking they're hiding something more even exciting.

Dane Cook