Delafield Quotes

#1. She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

E.M. Delafield

#2. UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Richard Bach

#4. A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

E.M. Delafield

#5. I noticed my mother's face assume an expression she reserved for unspeakable horror. I had seen this look only twice before: once when she was caught in the path of a charging, rabid pig and then again when I told her I wanted a peach-colored velveteen blazer with matching slacks.

David Sedaris

#6. Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

E.M. Delafield

#7. Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

E.M. Delafield

#8. I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

M T Anderson

#9. Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

E.M. Delafield

#10. I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love.

Julianne Donaldson

#11. People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.

E.M. Delafield

#12. There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

E.M. Delafield

#13. I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was all.

Psy

#14. God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation ...

Pope Innocent III

#15. I think the consistency comes from the parts.

Aoife O'Donovan

#16. Having in our childhood felt primal awe for the spectacle of the holiday, we are told to age into feeling sullen and resentful. You are supposed to proclaim Santa dead like preadolescent Nietzsches and decry the whole month as an orgy of crass commercialism.

Thomm Quackenbush

#17. Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

E.M. Delafield

#18. I make a big salad bowl just for myself, double or triple the size of a normal salad.

Joel Fuhrman

#19. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

E.M. Delafield

#20. Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

E.M. Delafield

#21. Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

E.M. Delafield

#22. Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

E.M. Delafield

#23. In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

George W. Bush

#24. She had made a terrible error in judgement and he had turned it into something permanent and beautiful. That was the nail in the tire. Or not even that. Not her reading it, not his writing it, but

Ann Patchett

#25. Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know?
Can it be death?

John Milton

#26. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius