4 Quotes by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

I've worked eleven years without a break, till a fire stopped me, and gave me a chance of studying. I can feel myself expanding, evolving. I defy even Starvation to stop me from finding out all I desire to know. And when I've got to know all I can, I shall pass it on to others.

The glimmering before the final closing down of darkness showed woods blackening against the sunset, woods bearing names of Odin and Thor. Rocks going up blackly into the gloaming were said to be the altars of the Druids: rain from the northern clouds had fallen into these rock-basins unprofaned by the human hand. Those bridges, becoming dense and iron thick in their blue-blackness as they spanned river and broad stream , were many of them the work of Roman soldiery.

The tragedy in the lives of the people is in what does not happen, rather than in what does happen -in all they do not realise.Ethel Carnie -Miss Nobody

At such times a young couple found it difficult to believe that in a few hours the whistle would call them, two slaves amongst a multitude of slaves, when they felt that each other was the most important person in the world! They walked on air, and saw the stars shine , and even poverty could not numb their hearts, but let them stray for a short time in that fairy garden whose gate opens but once , and , once closing, nevermore! Miss Nobody- Ethel Carnie