Quote

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Amelia Barr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Corner
Corners
Sorrow
Quiet
Woman
Away
Make

More quotes by Amelia Barr

Image
Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.
Amelia Barr
Image
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
Amelia Barr
Image
No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
Amelia Barr
Image
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
Image
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
Amelia Barr
Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
Amelia Barr
Image
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Amelia Barr
Image
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Amelia Barr
Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
Image
move not in your anger it is like putting to sea in a tempest.
Amelia Barr
Image
Men can bear all things but good days.
Amelia Barr
Image
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
Image
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia Barr
Image
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Amelia Barr
Image
We generally get the evil we expect.
Amelia Barr
Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
Amelia Barr
Image
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
Amelia Barr
Image
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
Amelia Barr
Image
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
Amelia Barr
Image
Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Amelia Barr