Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Margaret Deland
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
Author
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Jewels
Sea
Casket
Blue
Cloudless
Upon
Caskets
Light
Rims
Like
Shuts
Closes
Violet
More quotes by Margaret Deland
By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
Margaret Deland
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
Margaret Deland
The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.
Margaret Deland
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
Margaret Deland
... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
Margaret Deland
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Margaret Deland
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
Margaret Deland
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
Margaret Deland
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Margaret Deland
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different justice and reparation sometimes demand it but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.
Margaret Deland
Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.
Margaret Deland
Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.
Margaret Deland
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
Margaret Deland
faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.
Margaret Deland
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love reason cannot weaken it hate cannot destroy it.
Margaret Deland
the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.
Margaret Deland
