Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond H. Fischer

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.

Edmond H. Fischer

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.

Edmond de Goncourt

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Edith Piaf

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...

Edith Head

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

Edith Head

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

Edith Schaeffer

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

Edith Schaeffer

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Edmond Rostand

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!

Edith Sitwell

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Edith Sitwell

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Edith Sitwell

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

Edith Sitwell

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Edith Wharton

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage on the seas.

Edith Wharton

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

Edith Wharton

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Edith Wharton

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

Edith Wharton

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

Edith Wharton

Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

Edith Wharton

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Edith Wharton

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...

Edith Wharton

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects - hardly recognizable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles - made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters . . . any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Edith Wharton

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.