Quote

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Seems
Women
Littles
Little
Smiles
Men
Alike
Seldom
Tears
Seem

More quotes by Amelia Barr

Image
a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
Amelia Barr
Image
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful to go to work with a full sense of life to be determined to put hindrances out of the way to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful there is no beatitude for the despairing.
Amelia Barr
Image
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia Barr
Image
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Amelia Barr
Image
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Amelia Barr
Image
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
Image
I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.
Amelia Barr
Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Amelia Barr
Image
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
Amelia Barr
Image
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
Amelia Barr
Image
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
Amelia Barr
Image
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
Amelia Barr
Image
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
Amelia Barr
Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
Image
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
Amelia Barr
Image
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Amelia Barr
Image
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
Image
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
Amelia Barr
Image
No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Amelia Barr
Image
youth is always sure that change must mean something better.
Amelia Barr