H. B. Warner Quotes

Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

Rouen shone in dark sunlight and a storm swept it away from my eyes and churned up the broad river with waves which pounced up like cats as our train drew out of the arches of the bridge.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.

Life without love is like a bird without feathers. Life without love is like a butterfly without wings it's the saddest of things."In this life I can live without many things love is not on that list

A speeding bullet from a speeding car could not penetrate his heart

All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.

No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is defenseless against your womanly power.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.

Womanly Power: Hurting a man and then making him apologize.

Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions.

They stopped next at a bookstore. "Oh, what a delicious smell of new books!" said Ellen, as they entered. "Mamma, if it wasn't for one thing, I should say I never was so happy in my life.

Our humanity consists in our ability to sense and respect and respond to the humanity of others.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

I think it is a good thing that the Trinity is confusing If it weren't, we wouldn't have the desire to learn more.