Eliza Haywood Quotes

#1. Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them ...

Eliza Haywood

#2. To each of man's ages the Lord gives its own anxieties.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Those Women who boast the Affections of their Admirers, have a greater share of Vanity than Love ...

Eliza Haywood

#4. Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. But, mostly, I didn't pursue people I wasn't crazy about because I was busy doing things that I enjoyed more than being with men I wasn't crazy about.

Rebecca Traister

#7. My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

Amanda Donohoe

#8. In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

Eliza Haywood

#9. To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Eliza Haywood

#10. There wasn't a problem between you and I until you made it a problem".....Leah

Kim Morris

#11. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I

Tracy Chevalier

#12. Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

Eliza Haywood

#13. Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

Eliza Haywood

#14. The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Eliza Haywood

#15. I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.

Tom Stoppard

#16. Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#17. Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Eliza Haywood

#18. The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.

Eliza Haywood

#19. These are the lords
That have bought titles: men may merchandise
Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities
From sea to sea, and from shore to shore:
But in my thought, of all things that are sold,
'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold:
It cuts off all desert.

Eliza Haywood

#20. Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Eliza Haywood

#21. There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

Eliza Haywood

#22. I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Sarah Dessen