Emily Eden famous quotes

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
-- Emily Eden

#Keeping Secrets #Fool #Instinct

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.
-- Emily Eden

#Murder #Found

what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
-- Emily Eden

#Use #World

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
-- Emily Eden

#Too Late #Half #Hours

There is nothing so catching as refinement.
-- Emily Eden

#Refinement #Catching

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
-- Emily Eden

#Jealousy #Real #Hard Work

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Only fools and passengers drink at sea.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.