Age, Nature Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. - Elizabeth Hardwick
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. - Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. - Elizabeth Hardwick
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. - Elizabeth Hardwick
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. - Elizabeth Hardwick
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. - Antoinette Brown Blackwell
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. - C. S. Lewis
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. - Lindsay Lohan
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. - Elizabeth Hardwick