Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
night soul body
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.
men democracy care
politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
may poverty painful
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
adversity gold
In any adversity gold can find friends.
may west east
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
men twenties ready
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
shoes
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
fruit life-is
the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
laughter feelings
laughter is always fatal to feeling ...
soul
It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
sorrow forethought stills
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
messengers messages
A good message will always find a messenger.
ignorance silence speech
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
pay
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.