"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows." — Lady Randolph Churchill
"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."
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11 Quotes by Lady Randolph Churchill
Lady Randolph Churchill has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
- Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
- You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
- It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
- There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
- You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a…
- I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to…
- Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as…
- Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
- He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.