Writer Quotes by Carolyn Wells

“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance whose presence is least desired, but most rewarding when embraced."- Carolyn Wells, Start…

— Carolyn Wells

Invitation is the sincerest flattery.

— Carolyn Wells

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

— Carolyn Wells

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

— Carolyn Wells

There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest…

— Carolyn Wells

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every…

— Carolyn Wells

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed…

— Carolyn Wells

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand…

— Carolyn Wells

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And…

— Carolyn Wells

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells

“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”

— Carolyn Wells

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

— Carolyn Wells

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…

— Carolyn Wells

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily…

— Carolyn Wells