Ethel M. Dell Quotes & Sayings

We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves. — Ethel M. Dell

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other. — Ethel M. Dell

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. — Ethel M. Dell

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store. — Ethel M. Dell

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast. — Ethel M. Dell

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct. — Ethel M. Dell

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend. — Ethel M. Dell

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else. — Ethel M. Dell

There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness. — Ethel M. Dell

What we once fling away never comes again to us. — Ethel M. Dell

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. — Ethel M. Dell

That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all. — Ethel M. Dell

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new ... — Ethel M. Dell

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?'
'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you - you - and only you. Didn't you know? — Ethel M. Dell