Elizabeth Inchbald famous quotes

06-21-2025

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Motivation #Jaundice #Good Humor
A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Fashion #Men #Unhappy
I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Integrity #Intention #Profession
I have not laughed since I married ...
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Married
There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Loss #Sea #Land
Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Sex #Grief #Heart
... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Art #Exercise #Names

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.
Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.
There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .
What i value more than all things, good humor.

Elizabeth Inchbald famous quotes

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