27 Quotes by Elizabeth Aston

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

People make one happy, not houses.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.