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Top 15 Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quotes (2025 Update)

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”

1. “Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.”

2. “Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.”

3. “Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning – to lie awake and cry in the morning –...”

4. “Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning – to lie awake and cry in the morning –...”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for – Doing.”

5. “If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for – Doing.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

6. “Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.”

7. “Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt’s belt.”

8. “One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt’s belt.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.”

9. “I have a theory that no child ever does outgrow its ungratified legitimate desires; though subsequent maturity may bring him to the point where his original desire has reached such astounding proportions that the original object can no longer possibly appease it.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly unexplainable masculine faces that fill your senses with an odd, impersonal disquietude, an itching unrest, like the hazy, teasing reminder of some previous existence in a prehistoric cave, or, more tormenting still, with the tingling, psychic prophecy of some amazing emotional experience yet to come.”

10. “More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly unexplainable masculine faces that fill your senses with an odd, impersonal disquietude, an itching unrest, like the hazy, teasing reminder of some previous existence in a prehistoric cave, or, more tormenting still, with the tingling, psychic prophecy of some amazing emotional experience yet to come.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.”

11. “Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “If there’s – one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it’s the ninny who calls a thing ‘improbable’ because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.”

12. “If there’s – one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it’s the ninny who calls a thing ‘improbable’ because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “Provide for her Future – if you can! – That’s my motto! – But a man’s just a plain bum who don’t provide for his own Past!”

13. “Provide for her Future – if you can! – That’s my motto! – But a man’s just a plain bum who don’t provide for his own Past!”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “The Pretty Lady’s brains were almost entirely in her fingers.”

14. “The Pretty Lady’s brains were almost entirely in her fingers.”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Quote: “I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish – I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and – appraised it – and taxed it – and licensed it – and staled it!”

15. “I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish – I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and – appraised it – and taxed it – and licensed it – and staled it!”

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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