Elizabeth Cobbs > Quotes

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” Voltaire, 1694–1778”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“you may not care about marriage now, Betsey, but you'll change your mind someday. Someday you will. And if you've given no thought to how to choose a man you can live with, you're going to end up with someone ugly or poor. Or worse, dull"

"If I ever marry I don't want a husband I can live with. I want one I cannot live without.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Sister loyalty was Newton's first law. Fidelity to family and parents was the second.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“I’d never wish to be part of a country that tolerates mob rule. There’s no greater threat to liberty than a crowd with torches.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Laurens, Lafayette, and Hamilton--all roughly the same age-- had become inseparable when they discovered they shared the conviction that all men should be free, including blacks.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Good will must never be taken for granted.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“back”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“He hoped never to see another duel. He couldn’t imagine taking a man’s life that way.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“If I ever marry, I don’t want a husband I can live with. I want one I cannot live without.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“One had children without knowing all that would be required to raise them, but a woman did whatever was necessary to make them behave and meet their needs. Then she prayed.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Had he really tried hard enough to avoid the awful encounter or had he dithered because he'd knwon it was inevitable? It had always been his way to confront danger rather than shirk it. Some called that courage. Others called it foolishness. Or arrogance.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime,”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.” White Eagle, Ponca Chief, 1840–1914”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair

“Tame or wild, all the animals she knew on the farm were far from dumb, though that’s what ignorant, unimaginative people called them.”
― Elizabeth Cobbs, The Hamilton Affair