39 Quotes by Stella Benson

This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot believe that a little alien book such as this, written for the magically-inclined minority, can be considered a trespasser.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.