Elizabeth von Arnim - People Quotes

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Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

Elizabeth von Arnim

He was the man for trouble. He regretted, of course, that people should get into it, but being in he was their man.

Elizabeth von Arnim

If she and Job had had children they too, by this time, would be all scattered and anyhow. Grown up. Married. And of course making a grandmother of her. Incredible, the things one could be made by other people. Fancy being forced to be a grandmother, whether you liked it or not!

Elizabeth von Arnim