Author Quotes

It's funny how people who control their own emotions seem to like and need a show of affection from others.

Rosina Harrison

Oi'm always noble, sir; it's in my blood. 'As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

Elizabeth Haydon

I do not feel myself called upon to say how many loaves of bread, under my apprenticeship, came out of the oven as heavy as a bad joke...

Caroline Howard Gilman

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

Stephen Vizinczey

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Anzia Yezierska

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Jack L. Chalker

The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.

I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.

Harriette Wilson

A loyal-hearted man rejoices at a friend's advancement; a disloyal man cries out in sorrow when something pleasant befalls his friend and he is there to see it.

Wolfram von Eschenbach

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Our job is to try
To change things.
After Hiroshima
You ask a poet to sing.

We were at the age where we had almost been forgotten but were not quite old enough to be heralded for still being alive after all these years.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Charles Dudley Warner

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Anna Katharine Green

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

So much to live for.
Each rope rings
a different bell.

America does not have to rely on vast volumes of oil and natural gas to make food.... It has to get smarter. Dedicated, hard-working, ethical, and ingenious farmers... show us it can be done.... Another very promising trend in many countries is the reemergence of urban agriculture, community gardens, and backyard gardens.

If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives — with accrued interest — in the mature years.

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

I saw how fascinating her mystery was to you. For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most emptiness. A person full of live is never mysterious. On the contrary.

Of all the stages in a woman's life, none is so dangerous as the period between her acknowledgment of a passion for a man, and the day set apart for her nuptials.