Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wellswas an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 June 1862
CountryUnited States of America
Carolyn Wells quotes about
body magazines literature
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
travel literature care
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.
age
I'm just the same age I've always been.
wall broke abode
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
gale calm
A living gale is better than a dead calm.
infidelity wages sin
The wages of sin is alimony.
humor musician humour
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
flirting envy and-love
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
flattery invitations
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
faces circumstances
Circumstances alter faces.
past people giving
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.
mother society conventions
Society's the mother of convention.
imagination contentment results
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
detectives stories detective-stories
Where there's a will there's a detective story.