Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Zoe Akins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American playwright Zoe Akins.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Zoe Byrd Akins was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid.

American - Playwright | October 30, 1886 - October 29, 1958

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Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .

Zoe Akins

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Zoe Akins

Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Zoe Akins

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Zoe Akins

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Zoe Akins

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Zoe Akins

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Zoe Akins

The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

Zoe Akins

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Zoe Akins

Work alone qualifies us for life.

Zoe Akins

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

Zoe Akins

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Zoe Akins

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