Books Quote by Corra May Harris

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how…

— Corra May Harris

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

— Corra May Harris

As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not come to…

— Corra May Harris

There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people…

— Corra May Harris

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as…

— Corra May Harris

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs…

— Corra May Harris

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties…

— Corra May Harris

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public…

— Corra May Harris

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

— Corra May Harris

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

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I…

— Corra May Harris

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