Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Emily Eden.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Emily Eden was an English poet and novelist who gave witty accounts of English life in the early 19th century. She wrote a celebrated account of her travels in India, and two novels that sold well. She was also an accomplished amateur artist.
People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.
There is nothing so catching as refinement.
what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.