Constance Lloyd Quotes & Sayings

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson

The next few days passed in the customary fashion of Society during the Season. In the mornings they rode in the park, at which Emily had taught herself to be both graceful and skilled. — Anne Perry

Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through the city and notes the shattered skull of the suicide, the "grey sick faces of onanists," etc., etc. But unquestionably our own age, at any rate in Western Europe, is less healthy and less hopeful than the age in which Whitman was writing. Unlike Whitman, we live in a shrinking world. The "democratic vistas" have ended in barbed wire. There is less feeling of creation and growth, less and less emphasis on the cradle, endlessly rocking, more and more emphasis on the teapot, endlessly stewing. To accept civilisation as it is practically means accepting decay. It has ceased to be a strenuous attitude and become a passive attitude - even "decadent," if that word means anything. — George Orwell

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it. — Sandra Dodd

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run. — Kurt Vonnegut

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future. — John Kufuor

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion. — Donatella Versace

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight. — Tony Blair

I gave no prescriptions,
And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
Mistake the matter. — Louis Simpson