"Happiness can never hope to command so much……" — Stella Gibbons

"Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress."

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23 Quotes by Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with…
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so…
A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does…
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you…
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with…

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More Command Quotes

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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that… — Neil Armstrong
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite… — Honore de Balzac
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied… — Tyra Banks
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as… — Jack Black
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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