Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes

• 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.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Names, Giving, Prejudice

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Self-importance

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Faults, Adore, Creatures

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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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• All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Vanity, Discovering

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

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Destiny, Men, Unity

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• There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Loneliness, Ill, Public Life

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• To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Ideas, Horror, Easy

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• Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Thinking, Talking, Easier

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