Susan Ertz Quotes

“All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.”

“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.”

“He talked with more claret than clarity.”

“One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.”

“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

“The novelists of the nineteenth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.”

“You're everything I've ever wanted, my darling, and you're a hundred things I must have wanted without even knowing it.”

“Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.”

“Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.”

“It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.”

“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”