Top 80 Myrtle Reed Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.”

— Myrtle Reed

2. “Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.”

— Myrtle Reed

3. “The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.”

— Myrtle Reed

4. “A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.”

— Myrtle Reed

5. “Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.”

— Myrtle Reed

6. “Revolution is obstructed evolution.”

— Myrtle Reed

7. “The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.”

— Myrtle Reed

8. “Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.”

— Myrtle Reed

9. “Silence always gives consent...”

— Myrtle Reed

10. “Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.”

— Myrtle Reed

11. “Marriage is the cold potato of love.”

— Myrtle Reed

12. “Gossip is the social mosquito.”

— Myrtle Reed

13. “When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.”

— Myrtle Reed

14. “Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.”

— Myrtle Reed

15. “Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.”

— Myrtle Reed

16. “Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.”

— Myrtle Reed

17. “I’ve just washed my hair and I can’t do a thing with it!”

— Myrtle Reed

18. “May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends.”

— Myrtle Reed

19. “When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.”

— Myrtle Reed

20. “Somewhere on this great world the sun is always shining, and it will sometimes shine on you.”

— Myrtle Reed

21. “A bird is joy incarnate.”

— Myrtle Reed

22. “Money may not be your best friend, but it’s the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.”

— Myrtle Reed

23. “In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will – before by faith, and afterward by memory.”

— Myrtle Reed

24. “Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.”

— Myrtle Reed

25. “After the door of a woman’s heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.”

— Myrtle Reed

26. “One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.”

— Myrtle Reed

27. “Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.”

— Myrtle Reed

28. “Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.”

— Myrtle Reed

29. “It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people’s affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.”

— Myrtle Reed

30. “If we all tried to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.”

— Myrtle Reed

31. “As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.”

— Myrtle Reed

32. “A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.”

— Myrtle Reed

33. “Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them.”

— Myrtle Reed

34. “I’ve always thought my flowers had souls.”

— Myrtle Reed

35. “It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.”

— Myrtle Reed

36. “Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.”

— Myrtle Reed

37. “There isn’t a new sorrow in the world – they’re all old ones – but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.”

— Myrtle Reed

38. “The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”

— Myrtle Reed

39. “Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.”

— Myrtle Reed

40. “Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.”

— Myrtle Reed

41. “The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you’re conventional, you’ll be good, in a negative sense, of course.”

— Myrtle Reed

42. “I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.”

— Myrtle Reed

43. “Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.”

— Myrtle Reed

44. “A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.”

— Myrtle Reed

45. “No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”

— Myrtle Reed

46. “Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.”

— Myrtle Reed

47. “Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.”

— Myrtle Reed

48. “Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.”

— Myrtle Reed

49. “Those who have been made great have first suffered.”

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50. “Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.”

— Myrtle Reed