Corra Harris Quotes

#1. War is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

Corra May Harris

#2. Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

Corra May Harris

#3. So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

Corra May Harris

#4. I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Corra May Harris

#5. I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Corra May Harris

#6. I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Corra May Harris

#7. There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

Corra May Harris

#8. This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart
they do see God.

Corra May Harris

#9. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

#10. Stories are factual ... If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change ... In America it is the man who matters not the story.

Adam Johnson

#11. Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do.

Eric Plume

#12. Words are dangerous things.

Corra May Harris

#13. Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.

Corra May Harris

#14. If one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Corra May Harris

#15. No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Corra May Harris

#16. Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Corra May Harris

#17. The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

Corra May Harris

#18. To be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Corra May Harris

#19. What I wanted was the tiniest thing in the world: to be like everyone else.

Philip Roth

#20. Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

#21. Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Corra May Harris

#22. It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity ...

Corra May Harris

#23. I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

Corra May Harris

#24. I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

Anthony Horowitz