My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

- Elizabeth Kenny

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to…

- Elizabeth Kenny

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, a…

- Elizabeth Kenny

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

- Elizabeth Kenny

He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he …

- Elizabeth Kenny

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the r…

- Elizabeth Kenny

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

- Elizabeth Kenny

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran c…

- Elizabeth Kenny

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

- Elizabeth Kenny