You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other. — Stella Benson Clay Copy Share Image
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys. — Stella Benson Animal Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart. — Stella Benson Cities Copy Share Image
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson Committee Copy Share Image
Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this… — Stella Benson Age Copy Share Image
Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood. — Stella Benson Conscience Copy Share Image
“My love, I see you through my tears. No pity in your face I see. I have sailed far across the years;… — Stella Benson Love Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists. — Stella Benson Autobiography Copy Share Image
Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. — Stella Benson Alive Copy Share Image
“That sea - that mother of a million summers, Who bore, with melody, a million springs, Shall sing for my enchantment...” — Stella Benson Mother Copy Share Image
“Come home, come home, you million ghosts, The honest years shall make amends, The sun and moon shall be your hosts, The… — Stella Benson Friendship Copy Share Image
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them. — Stella Benson Behinds Copy Share Image
“My soundless feet shall fly among the runners Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid, My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft… — Stella Benson Fires Shall Copy Share Image
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury… — Stella Benson Achievement Copy Share Image
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why… — Stella Benson Forget Copy Share Image
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building… — Stella Benson Air Copy Share Image
You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria… — Stella Benson Hysteria Copy Share Image
“Now there is hardly anything but magic abroad before seven o'clock in the morning. Only the disciples of magic like getting their… — Stella Benson Empty stomach Copy Share Image
“I want to go out into the country, I want to thread the pale Spring air, and hear the lambs cry. I… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than… — Stella Benson Committee Copy Share Image
What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing… — Stella Benson Black Copy Share Image
Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered… — Stella Benson Anxiety Copy Share Image
“London is a friend whom I can leave knowing without doubt that she will be the same to me when I return,… — Stella Benson Black and white Copy Share Image
Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. — Stella Benson Comedy Copy Share Image
Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in… — Stella Benson Art Copy Share Image
always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the… — Stella Benson Air Copy Share Image
“To-night the swinging stars shall plumb The silence of the sky.” — Stella Benson Astronomy Copy Share Image
The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences. — Stella Benson Chocolate Copy Share Image
Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other. — Stella Benson Connection Copy Share Image
“To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.” — Stella Benson Heart Copy Share Image
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it. — Stella Benson Curiosity Copy Share Image
The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it. — Stella Benson Annoying Copy Share Image
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea… — Stella Benson Men Copy Share Image
Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man… — Stella Benson Admirable Copy Share Image
