"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."

“To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.”

“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.”

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

“I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.”

“I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.”

“Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

“I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies”