“There was no known cure for a Catholic education.”
“everything associated with weddings cost the same - a fortune.”
Source: Accused: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel
“Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.”
Source: Lost Haven
“When you can't see any reason for loving a person, you must be loving him as a symbol of something, don't you think so?”
Source: Lost Haven
“The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.”
“once a policy, like a set of steel rails, had been laid down for him by his superiors, his obedience ran along it unswerving.”
“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.”
Source: Lost Haven
“Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.”
Source: Collected Novels of E. M. Delafield (6 Unabridged Editions in One Volume): Zella Sees Herself, The War Workers, Consequences, Tension, The Heel of Achilles & Humbug by the Prolific Author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Thank Heaven Fasting and The Way Things Are
“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”
Source: The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)
“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)
