Elizabeth Inchbald Professions : Novelist Born : October 15, 1753 Died : August 1, 1821 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Elizabeth Inchbald Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion. Elizabeth Inchbald good-humor jaundice motivation I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions. Elizabeth Inchbald profession intention integrity A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery. Elizabeth Inchbald fashion unhappy men Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate. Elizabeth Inchbald grief heart sex ... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit. Elizabeth Inchbald names exercise art I have not laughed since I married. Elizabeth Inchbald married laughed There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose. Elizabeth Inchbald land sea loss Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
