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Top 10 E. M. Delafield Quotes (2025 Update)

E. M. Delafield Quote: “Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.”

1. “Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.”

2. “Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?”

3. “Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Always remember, me dear, whether you’re listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that’s struck has two sides to it.”

4. “Always remember, me dear, whether you’re listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that’s struck has two sides to it.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost – lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”

5. “She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost – lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?”

6. “Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.”

7. “There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.”

8. “Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.”

9. “Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

10. “A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “This suggests Query: Does Robert, perhaps, take in what I say even when he makes no reply?”

11. “This suggests Query: Does Robert, perhaps, take in what I say even when he makes no reply?”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”

12. “The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.”

13. “People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.”

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E. M. Delafield Quote: “Am asked what I think of Harriet Hume but am unable to say, as I have not read it. Have a depressed feeling that this is going to be another case of Orlando about which was perfectly able to talk most intelligently until I read it, and found myself unfortunately unable to understand any of it.”

14. “Am asked what I think of Harriet Hume but am unable to say, as I have not read it. Have a depressed feeling that this is going to be another case of Orlando about which was perfectly able to talk most intelligently until I read it, and found myself unfortunately unable to understand any of it.”

— E. M. Delafield

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