"American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap."

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Source : Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.252, eBookIt.com

Elinor Glyn

#Humor Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.”
“We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.”
“It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.”
“I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.”
“When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.”
“Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.”
“Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.”
“Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her love meant for us. Real, deep love is, as you know, very unobtrusive, seemingly easy and obvious, and so present that we take it for granted. Therefore, it is only in retrospect - or better, in memory - that we fully realize its power and depth. Yes, indeed, love often makes itself visible in pain.”

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