Zoe Akins
Quotations
Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.
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.
It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
No one can ever help loving anyone.
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
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.
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