Amelia Edith Barr Amelia Barr in 1889, and her signature. Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist. Read full biography of Amelia Barr →
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for... →
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware... →
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.