Quotes by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

… home isn’t always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

Clothes

Everyday

Home

[Women] … is nothin’ but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

Girl

Hair

Women

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

Bully

Bullying

Hands

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Beautiful

Men

Tree

About mistakes it’s funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Mad

Mistake

People

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Becoming

Cutting

Literature

Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man’s best points.

Baseball

Dirty

Men

Any piece of furniture, I don’t care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character … A good deal like human beings.

Beautiful

Character

Real

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

Garden

Green

Weapons

celebratin’ New Year’s Eve is like eatin’ oranges. You got to let go your dignity t’ really enjoy ’em.

Letting Go

New Year

Years

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Acceptance

Acres

Age

Baseball

Beautiful

Becoming

Beef

Book

Bully

Bullying

Caviar

Champagne

Character

Children

Christmas

Climbing

Clothes

Clouds

Cobblers

Compulsion

Confusing

Country

Cutting

Dark

Dirty

Dissatisfaction

Doe

Done

Doors

Dream

Easier

Emo Love

Ends

Europe

Everyday

Feelings

Fixed

Flavor

Food

Four

Frustration

Games

Garden

Girl

Giving

Greatness

Green

Gun

Hair

Hands

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Quotes by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber

… home isn’t always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.

[Women] … is nothin’ but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

About mistakes it’s funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

celebratin’ New Year’s Eve is like eatin’ oranges. You got to let go your dignity t’ really enjoy ’em.

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