Olive Schreiner Quotes
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Olive Schreiner Quotes & Sayings
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When the curtain falls no one is ready
— Olive Schreiner
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
— Olive Schreiner
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
— Olive Schreiner
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
— Olive Schreiner
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
— Olive Schreiner
I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
— Olive Schreiner
Genius has no limit of sex or race.
— Olive Schreiner
Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.
— Olive Schreiner
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
— Olive Schreiner
Soul, what have I to do with you?
— Olive Schreiner
I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ]
— Olive Schreiner
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
— Olive Schreiner
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
— Olive Schreiner
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
— Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner.
— Denise Scott Brown
Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!
— Olive Schreiner
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well ... than to kill ten thousand.
— Olive Schreiner
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
— Olive Schreiner
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
— Olive Schreiner
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
— Olive Schreiner
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
— Olive Schreiner
The surest sign of fitness is success.
— Olive Schreiner
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea ...
— Olive Schreiner
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
— Olive Schreiner
This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand.
— Olive Schreiner
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
— Olive Schreiner
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.
— Olive Schreiner
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
— Olive Schreiner
Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.
— Olive Schreiner
The brain works better if the hand works too.
— Olive Schreiner
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
— Olive Schreiner
I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies
— Olive Schreiner
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
— Olive Schreiner
