Carolyn Wells

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— Carolyn Wells

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

— Carolyn Wells

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

— Carolyn Wells

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Carolyn Wells

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

— Carolyn Wells

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

— Carolyn Wells

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once…

— Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

— Carolyn Wells

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with…

— Carolyn Wells

Circumstances alter faces.

— Carolyn Wells

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

— Carolyn Wells

“And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?" "Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking…

— Carolyn Wells

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I…

— Carolyn Wells

Every dogma must have its day.

— Carolyn Wells

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

— Carolyn Wells