Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Quotes & Sayings

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em! — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ... — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry! — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away? — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie