17 Quotes by Ella Wilcox
- With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
- The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
- The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
- There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
- When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
- With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
- The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
- So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
- Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
- One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
- Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
- For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
- And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
- A weed is but an unloved flower.
- A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
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