Half Quote by Emily Eden Download Open image “It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!” — Emily Eden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Half Hours Late Life Pleasure Too late
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. - — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull andcommon life — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“What! another love story? My dear Blanche, I hope you are not going to turn into a match-maker; of all the dangerous manufactories in… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“What am I to give the housemaids here? and do you object to my reading novels, if Lady Eskdale says there is no harm… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear Mr. Douglas, don't go off on those tiresome foreign affairs. What can it signify which conquers which, or who dethrones who,… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Oh! where is Truth? am I never to find it? I can bear artifice in the frivolities and gauds of the world–it is all… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“The girls were full of pity and admiration, and affirmed that when their mother understood Rachel a little better she would like her. "My… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Thirty morning gowns!" whispered Sarah, as they went down stairs. "The idea of a new gown every day for a month. Now I call… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them? — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Douglas could hardly do less than make a very great grievance of what was intended as a kindness. She hated a wedding; it… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“To those who are not, like Wordsworth's primrose, "dwellers on the river's brim," it may be necessary to explain that an outrigger is an… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Oh, mamma!" said Eliza, "I wish you would not say that; and I wish they would ask us constantly to their house. It is… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies. — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
