Elizabeth

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.”
― Evelyn Waugh