Elisabeth Beresford quotes

Elisabeth Beresford quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Make good use of bad rubbish.”
-- Elisabeth Beresford

Source : Elisabeth Beresford (2011). “The Wombles Go round the World”, p.127, A&C Black

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“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”
“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”
“I don't use many apps. I use naps.”
“Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”
“Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.”
“Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”
“Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.”

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