"They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them."

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Source : "Stately as a Galleon" by Joyce Grenfell, "English Lit.", 1978.

Joyce Grenfell

#Sorry Quotes #Aggravation Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.”
“Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.”
“My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.”
“In the foolishness lies the danger.”
“The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.”
“The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.186, Cambridge University Press
“What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.”

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