Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No… — Corra May Harris Accustomed Copy Share Image
Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love. — Corra May Harris Achieve Copy Share Image
As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not… — Corra May Harris Achieve Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Beats Copy Share Image
If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of… — Corra May Harris Appeals Copy Share Image
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination… — Corra May Harris About yourself Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the… — Corra May Harris Backsliding Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Book Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Books Copy Share Image
... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow. — Corra May Harris Humans Copy Share Image
No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. — Corra May Harris Courage Copy Share Image
I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me… — Corra May Harris Being true Copy Share Image
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces. — Corra May Harris Achievement Copy Share Image
one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too… — Corra May Harris Church Copy Share Image
war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it. — Corra May Harris Form Copy Share Image
if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul. — Corra May Harris Enough Copy Share Image
I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the… — Corra May Harris Accomplished Copy Share Image
This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God. — Corra May Harris Heart Copy Share Image
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if… — Corra May Harris Beer Copy Share Image
It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues,… — Corra May Harris Boast Copy Share Image
I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy. — Corra May Harris Believe Copy Share Image
Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,… — Corra May Harris Antics Copy Share Image
I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading. — Corra May Harris Dies Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Breathe Copy Share Image
