Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie famous quotes

07-18-2025

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

#Soul #Body #Misery
A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Doubt #Truth Is
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!
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Dream #Thinking #Expectations
love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Men #Imagination
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Marriage #Unhappy #Ems
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Meat #Politician #Butchers
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Regret #Men #Desire
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Men #Self-importance
Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Faults #Adore #Creatures
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.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Loneliness #Ill #Sociability
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Vanity #Discovering
All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Virtue #Degrading
In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Destiny #Men #Unity
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Imagination #Fields #Beast
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Ideas #Horror #Easy
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Humor #Sense Of Humor #Deals
When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Men #May #Forget
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Mistake #Destiny #Men
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.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Might #Steps #Wonder
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.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Men #Careers #Wife
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.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Women #Ocean #Eden
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Giving #Might #Hours
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Men #Thinking
What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Beauty #Beautiful
People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Clothes #Sight #People
Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Thinking #Talking #Conversation
entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Entertainment #Sake #Form
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

#Life #Sacrifice #Love Is

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