Fortune Quote by Winifred Holtby

“If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.”

Winifred Holtby

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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day…

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Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

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Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind…

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There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

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I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

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What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

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public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our…

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Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

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I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more…

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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort…

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Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

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