"Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble,……" — Stevie Smith
"Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable."
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31 Quotes by Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith has 31 quotes on this site.
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Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been…
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows.…
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to…
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my…
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The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just…
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my…
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on…
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed…
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More Elinor Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.
— Anita Loos
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It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
— Jane Austen
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
— Jane Austen
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
— Jane Austen
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was…
— Jane Austen
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said…
— Jane Austen
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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to…
— Jane Austen
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I prefer a story that has the good sense to stay on the page where it belongs. - Elinor
— Cornelia Funke
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Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel…
— Cornelia Funke
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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the…
— Jane Austen
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Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
— Jane Austen
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Words are immortal - Elinor
— Cornelia Funke
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