Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties. — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles. — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love. — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next? — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image