Myrtle Reed - People Quotes

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I've thought lots of times that if we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

Myrtle Reed
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.

Myrtle Reed
It is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house — always go to theirs.

Myrtle Reed
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Myrtle Reed
It always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

Myrtle Reed
Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Myrtle Reed
There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

Myrtle Reed
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

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One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

Myrtle Reed