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…

— 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…

— 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

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting…

— Ethel M. Dell

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

— Ethel M. Dell

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

— Ethel M. Dell

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

— Ethel M. Dell