It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.
Myrtle ReedThe fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.
Myrtle ReedOf all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
Myrtle ReedOn that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.
Myrtle ReedIf we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Myrtle Reedit 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 ReedNot infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.
Myrtle ReedLots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
Myrtle ReedOne 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 ReedThere isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.
Myrtle ReedBefore, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
Myrtle ReedFortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
Myrtle ReedIf we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.
Myrtle ReedMoney may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
Myrtle ReedHeart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.
Myrtle ReedAfter the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.
Myrtle ReedIf there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
Myrtle ReedThe conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
Myrtle ReedAll we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
Myrtle Reed[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
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