Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.