Quotes from Elizabeth Cadell

You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.

I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more--they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.

How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past?

It was terrible if you looked at things the way they could have been, but if you concentrated on what there was, it didn't look too bad.

She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.

Freddie felt strongly that a natural appearance was only permissible, only really effective, it if was artificially produced.

No. I want to get out—outside. Out of this flat." "There's a full moon. Have you ever walked beside the Seine in the moonlight?" "No. Have you?" "Not with you. Let's go.

I'm only judging by his letters, but are you sure you want to marry a fellow who uses six words where one would do?

I don't mind his temper, or anybody's temper," I said, piling breakfast plates on a tray, "when I've done anything to provoke it, but I don't see why people should be unpleasant to everybody else just because they happen to feel moody or tired or upset.

Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway.

can't help feeling that people ask too much. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more—they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.

Nothing more was said. It was evident that Uncle Robert, like Lady Catherine de Bourgh, would say no farewells and make no compliments.

My trouble has always been," Mrs. Channing said, "that I can see both sides of every question." "Trouble? That is a gift, Madame; a very unusual gift." Mrs. Channing rose and prepared to follow her into lunch. "I don't think it's a gift," she said. "If it is, it came from a very wicked fairy.

She is not wealthy in the way that Sir Bertram understands wealth, but she is not poor, and she has things that you used to have here in England, but do not have any more: loyal retainers, dependents, whole families living on her bounty, families whose every member she knows and cares for. Her life is simple, her house, compared with this, is shabby, but in her own domain she is what I called her - a queen.