Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 23 (pp. 174-175)
“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”
Source: Fly by Night
“It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.”
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Context: It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.... Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
A misquotation of "The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow", from James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover (1827), ch. 23.
Misattributed
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
“5454. We seldom find out that we are flattered.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”
Source: The Powerbook
“Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.”
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
