Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie - People Quotes

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This is one of the advantages of middle age: people have got used to their bodies and to their faults; they know how to use them, to spare them, and they do not expect too much.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Some people reserve themselves for great occasions, instead of spending their sympathies lavishly along the way.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Spoiling is a vexed question, but as a rule people get so much stern justice from all the rest of the world that it seems well that their parents should love and comfort them in youth for the many disgraces and difficulties yet to come.

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People's lives as they really are don't perhaps vary very much, but people's lives as they seem to be assuredly change with the fashions.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Dolly used to get almost tipsy upon sunshine. The weather is as much part of some people's lives as the minor events which happen to them.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
The conversation of selfish people is often far more amusing than that of the unselfish, who see things too diffusedly, and who have not, as a rule, the gift of vivid description. Mrs. Palmer was deeply, deeply interested in her own various feelings.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie