E. M. Delafield quotes

“Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2411, Delphi Classics

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

#Believe Quotes #Fate Quotes #Immortality Quotes

“People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.4805, Delphi Classics

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

#Children Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2296, e-artnow

#Wise Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume): Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, Consequences, Tension, The Heel of Achilles & Humbug by the Prolific Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting and The Way Things Are”, p.959, e-artnow

#Two Sides Quotes #Listening Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.”
-- E. M. Delafield

#Eton Quotes #Language Quotes #Educated Quotes

“Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2680, e-artnow

#Average Quotes #Language Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.1660, e-artnow

#Strong Quotes #Soul Quotes #Birth Quotes

“Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.16, e-artnow

#Optimism Quotes #Doe Quotes #Engagement Quotes

“Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.3721, Delphi Classics

#Strong Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”
-- E. M. Delafield

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Diary of a Provincial Lady”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Sleep Quotes