"Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important."

-- Elsa Maxwell

#Character Quotes #Successful Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.”
“Weâ€™re all children of Kubrick, arenâ€™t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasnâ€™t done?”
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”
“We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?”
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”
“An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.”

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