the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

- Elizabeth Hardwick

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 pai…

- Elizabeth Hardwick

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable …

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Memory - the very skin of life.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

- Elizabeth Hardwick