James Augustus St. John famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

  • Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

  • In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.

  • The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  • My family background was deeply Christian.

  • I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

  • Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

  • The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

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