M.M. Scott Quotes

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

Character is plot, plot is character.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

Human sympathy has its limits.

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.

You look beautiful - David

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.