Alec-Tweedie Quotes

• Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

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  Marriage, Eye, Love Is

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• Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

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  Travel, Sunshine, Land

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• We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

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  Mistake, Individuality, Age

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• The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

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  Money, Powerful, Book

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• Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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  Peas In A Pod, Elements, Uncouth

  Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

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  Book, Sarcasm, Interesting

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• Theatrical work means too much work or none.

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  Mean, Too Much, Theater

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• Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

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  People, Desire, Actors

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• No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

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  Brother, Eight, Years

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.

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  Running, Hands, Risk

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

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  Doe, Extravagance, Want

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• Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

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  Character, Adversity, Fruit

  Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

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  Moments, Theatrical, Profession

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1932). “Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories”

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