77 Quotes by Amelia Barr

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.