15 Quotes by Corra May Harris

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods – only your virtues, to boast of – than it is to judge the rich with charity...

Words are dangerous things.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader’s mind.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart – they do see God.