Quotes from Ethel M. Dell

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?' 'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you—you—and only you. Didn't you know?

And this was Love—this hunger that could never be satisfied, this craving which would not be stifled or ignored—Love triumphant, invincible, immortal—the thing she had striven to slay at its birth, but which had lived on in spite of her, growing, spreading, enveloping, till she was lost, till she was suffocated, in its immensity

How can I be honest with you," he said, "when you are not honest with yourself" "You are bound—some time—to reap what you have sown.

People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody

Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the price.

The gods have sent you a gift, and because you don't know what it is made of, you are going to pull it to pieces to find out. And presently you will fling it away because you cannot fit it together again

the biggest things command the highest prices. If we haven't the means to pay for a big thing when it is offered us, we must just let it go. But if we have—well, I guess we'd be wise to sell out all the little things and secure it. Those same little things are so almighty small in comparison

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.