Brevity Quote by Hector Hugh Munro Download Open image “You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.” — Hector Hugh Munro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brevity Brevity Soul Evidently Feel Feel Brevity Feels Soul Soul Widowhood Widowhood
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry,… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. — John Gay Copy Share Image
Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Widows are divided into two classes; the bereaved and the relieved. — Victor Robinson Copy Share Image
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up,… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
