Old things Quotes by Ethel M. Dell

“People's ways are all so different. It's rather infernal—trying to please everybody”

— Ethel M. Dell

“Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the…

— Ethel M. Dell

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

— Ethel M. Dell

That's the worst of doctors. They are so keen about the body, but they don't study the soul at all.

— Ethel M. Dell

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

— Ethel M. Dell

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

— Ethel M. Dell

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

— Ethel M. Dell

“The gods have sent you a gift, and because you don't know what it is made of, you are going to pull it to…

— Ethel M. Dell

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

— Ethel M. Dell

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

— Ethel M. Dell

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

— Ethel M. Dell

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

— Ethel M. Dell