37 Quotes by Elizabeth Kenny

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

If someone angers you, they control you.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically ...

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

He who angers you conquers you.

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.