Edna Ferber Quotes


"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."
- Edna Ferber
"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Sight, Writers)

"Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
- Edna Ferber
"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Business, People, Living, Lonely, Past)

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Death, Life, Love, Defeat, Writer, Writing)

"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Christmas, Feeling)

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Death, Being, Old, Struggle)

"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Struggle, Woman)

"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."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Living, Longevity, Man, Potential)

"A closed mind is a dying mind."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Dying, Mind)

"Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Violets)