Carolyn Wells Quotes
1862–1942 United States
Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 — March 26, 1942) was an American mystery author and poet.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!
He laughs best who laughs last,
The wiseacres vow;
But I am impatient,
I want to laugh now.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Youth is a silly, vapid state,
Old age with fears and ills is rife;
This simple boon I beg of Fate —
A thousand years of Middle Life.
They borrow books they will not buy,
They have no ethics or religions;
I wish some kind Burbankian guy
Could cross my books with homing pigeons!
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us — oh, they’re the worst of all!
I don't believe the half I hear,
Nor the quarter of what I see!
But I have one faith, sublime and true,
That nothing can shake or slay;
Each spring I firmly believe anew
All the seed catalogues say!
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery, and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.