Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes

• A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Doubt, Truth Is

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• Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Funny, Sarcastic, Mistake

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• People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Sight, Clothes, People

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• All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Virtue, Degrading, Effects

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• An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

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  Artist, Thinking, Feels

  Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) Craigie (1904). “The Artist's Life”

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• love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Imagination, Senses

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• We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Regret, Men, Desire

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• Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Dream, Thinking, Expectations

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• If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Humor, Sense Of Humor, Deals

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• Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Names, Giving, Prejudice

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• Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Faults, Adore, Creatures

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• Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Thinking

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• It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Imagination, Fields, Beast

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• Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

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  Men, Self-importance

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• A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Careers, Wife

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• When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

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  Men, May, Forget

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• A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Meat, Politician, Should

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• Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Sake, Entertainment, Form

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• There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Soul, Body, Misery

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• To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

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  Life, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Life, Might, Steps

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• Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Women, Ocean, Eden

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• Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Giving, Might, Hours

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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Marriage, Unhappy, Levels

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• In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

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  Destiny, Men, Unity

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