Vicki Baum Quotes

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize he will still for months wake up in the night with a start worrying about food and rent.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

About Author

Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel ('People at a Hotel', 1929 — published in English as Grand Hotel), one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

A woman who is loved always has success.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.