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
book thinking numbers
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.
book reading thinking
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
book writing thinking
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
age
I'm just the same age I've always been.
wall broke abode
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
body magazines literature
What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.
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.