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Ebook has 350 lines and 10262 words, and 7 pages
Contributor: Edward Huskinson
Illustrator: Anne Harriet Fish
Transcriber Notes
TATLINGS by Sydney Tremayne The Drawings by Fish
TATLINGS
Epigrams by Sydney Tremayne The Drawings by Fish
NEW YORK E. P. Dutton and Company 1922
INTRODUCTION
HEREIN THE FORTUNATE READERS WILL FIND THE HAPPY CONJUNCTION of two very brilliant young people, whose literary and artistic talents fit like the proverbial glove, or the musical and lyrical alliance of those immortals, Gilbert and Sullivan.
TATLINGS
TATLINGS
THE LOOKING-GLASS reveals us as we are to ourselves; the Wine-glass reveals us as we are to others.
IF A MAN puts a woman on a pedestal someone else will help her down.
NO MAN gets what he wants, though some may get what they have wanted.
THE REASON that a love affair so seldom ends happily is that one of the lovers is generally unwilling for it to end at all.
NO ONE agrees with other people's opinions, they merely agree with their own opinions expressed by somebody else.
IT IS a poor doctor who cannot prescribe an expensive cure for a rich patient.
A WOMAN alone is not necessarily a temptation, if she were a temptation she would probably not be alone.
SOME people succeed in preserving a youthful appearance, but they show their age in their opinions.
IF YOU GIVE a woman an opportunity, she will take everything else that she wants.
YOU ARE much nearer success when you are deplored than when you are ignored.
SO MANY young women have glibly promised their lovers that they would 'never change' and have been unrecognisable ten years later.
TO A WOMAN women are a sex and men an individual.
A WOMAN likes to know what the man she loves was like when he was a little boy; but a man would rather know what the woman he loves will be like when she is an old woman.
IT IS PROBABLE that if a woman cannot see the point of her husband's jokes she will see very little indeed of him.
A WOMAN may have a small mouth and yet be able to open it very wide.
A GIRL WHO spends her youth learning philosophy will almost certainly need it when her youth is spent.
ONE MAN'S love is often only the bait with which another man is caught.
SOME PEOPLE contrive to make their 'silent suffering' simply deafening.
ONE CAN forgive a person lying about one and possibly disprove them, but it is unforgiveable if they tell the truth; that is taking a mean advantage.
WOMEN have been the same through all the ages: the only difference between a girl and her mother is their feeling for her father.
IT IS difficult for a man to understand that a woman who would go through hell for love of him is capable of leaving him because he clears his throat or uses a toothpick.
NOTHING unites people like a common sorrow, except, perhaps, a vulgar joke.
IF A PRETTY back view won't let you catch it up it has probably got a horrible face.
AS SOON as a woman has put a man in her power she puts him out of her heart.
THE ONLY blows Fate seems to deal some people are slaps on the back.
A WOMAN'S clothes should be like an epigram, an adequate expression of an idea without a superfluous--syllable.
SOME MEN borrow a fiver and behave for ever after as if the only thing they owed you was a grudge.
A WOMAN IS not really adequately clothed because she is draped in mystery.
IT IS inexplicable, but undeniable, that a man often prefers the woman he has to make excuses for to the woman he has to make excuses to.
WHAT a woman costs and what she is worth are two entirely different things.
AMBITIONS vary: Men may want to do well, women may want to look well, but the old only want to sleep well.
A WOMAN cares most for a man when their love affair is over, a man cares most for a woman before their love affair has begun.
EVERYONE likes to be run after, but the difference between men and women is that men do not want to be caught and women do.
A WOMAN who can bear to hear her husband praise another woman is either different to other wives or indifferent to her husband.
A MAN'S 'for ever' is just about as long as a woman's 'five minutes.'
SOME PEOPLE drain the cup of life, and others stick to a medicine glass.
IT TAKES a clever man to write a good love letter, but only a fool would do it.
ODDLY enough the impression made by the possession of several different names is not nearly so favourable as the impression made by the possession of several different addresses.
THE MEANS to an end may put an end to one's means.
HE WHO CAN does, he who can't is shocked.
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