Society's the mother of convention. Carolyn Wells More Quotes by Carolyn Wells More Quotes From Carolyn Wells The wages of sin is alimony. Carolyn Wells infidelity wages sin When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough. Carolyn Wells writing long book musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves. Carolyn Wells humour musician humor All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met. Carolyn Wells crowds grew people I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices. Carolyn Wells fashion hate home ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination. Carolyn Wells color uplifting men To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire. Carolyn Wells apology pride fire ... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. Carolyn Wells library eye wish I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject. Carolyn Wells yards literature travel ... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books. Carolyn Wells reading mind book I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result. Carolyn Wells numbers book thinking I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's. Carolyn Wells reading book thinking Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation. Carolyn Wells flirting envy and-love Invitation is the sincerest flattery. Carolyn Wells invitations flattery Circumstances alter faces. Carolyn Wells circumstances faces We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live. Carolyn Wells live-and-learn too-late knowledge To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few. Carolyn Wells library fire two A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. Carolyn Wells eye mind men A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. Carolyn Wells necessary-evil criticism evil It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. Carolyn Wells library interest book
