Elizabeth Hardwick was a famous Critic from USA, who lived between July 27, 1916 and December 2, 2007. He/she became 91 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 7 quotes who is written / told by Elizabeth.
7 Famous quotes by Elizabeth Hardwick
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more"
"I am alone here in New York, no longer a we"
"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid"
"The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism"
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination"
"The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy"
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous"
