Margaret Deland Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland Famous Quotes & Sayings
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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.
As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.
I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...
The blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
As I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
If a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
It is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
Gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
In a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.