Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wellswas an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 June 1862
CountryUnited States of America
travel literature care
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
eye wish library
... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
pride apology fire
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
fashion hate home
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.
book reading mind
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.
girl book car
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
flirting envy and-love
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.
flattery invitations
Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
two fire library
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
eye men mind
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
dogma
Every dogma must have its day.
evil criticism necessary-evil
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.
book library interest
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
common-sense care dignity
Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself