“Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.”
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Famous Stella Benson Quotes
“Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.”
“The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.”
“The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.”
“a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.”
“Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.”
“The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.”
“Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.”
“The music paled like a candle and went out.”
“Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.”
“Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.”
“You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.”
“Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.”
“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”
