Quotes by Stella Benson

Stella Benson

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Committees

Enthusiasm

Purpose

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Air

California

Dream

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. … Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable – it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

Doors

Men

People

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

Art

Cities

Country

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart – and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

Fall

Men

Race

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

Curiosity

Dies

Needs

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Alive

Family

Ties

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. … I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one’s heart does not wait on achievement.

Heart

Luxury

Writing

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Animal

Islands

Ocean

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

Cities

Heart

Los Angeles

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Air

Alive

Animal

Art

California

Candle

Change

Cities

Class

Clouds

Committees

Country

Curiosity

Delicious

Dies

Doors

Dream

Enthusiasm

Excellent

Fall

Family

Flower

Forget

Godly

Heart

Islands

Law

Likes

Los Angeles

Luxury

Men

Misunderstood

Music

Needs

Ocean

People

Posing

Pretense

Productions

Purpose

Race

San Francisco

Silence

Sometimes

Thinking

Three

Ties

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Quotes by Stella Benson

Stella Benson

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one has a city house. It is good to see trees always from city windows, but it is not so good always to see houses from country windows.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. … I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one’s heart does not wait on achievement.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

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