Fanny Fern > Quotes

“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”
― Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

“There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.”
― Fanny Fern

“I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.”
― Fanny Fern

“Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.”
― Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

“Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,--sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.”
― Fanny Fern

“Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.”
― Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writings

“O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.”
― Fanny Fern

“Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.”
― Fanny Fern

“I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.”
― Fanny Fern

“Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?”
― Fanny Fern

“Life has much of harmony yet in store for you.”
― Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time

“I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.”
― Fanny Fern

“Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.”
― Fanny Fern, Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio. 2d series. With original designs by Fred M. Coffin.