Emily Eden Professions : Poet Born : March 3, 1797 Died : 1869 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Emily Eden It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life! Emily Eden hours half too-late Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them? Emily Eden keeping-secrets instinct fool I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it. Emily Eden courses murder found what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other? Emily Eden use world There is nothing so catching as refinement. Emily Eden refinement catching People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration. Emily Eden jealousy hard-work real Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors