Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
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
Wives
Virtues
Spite
Virtue
Wife
Men
Love
More quotes by Margaret Deland
Real divorce takes place without a decree.
Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
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
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.
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
Books are like sapphires they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
Margaret Deland
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!
Margaret Deland
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
Margaret Deland
Anger as well as love casts out fear.
Margaret Deland
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
Margaret Deland
Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.
Margaret Deland
... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
Margaret Deland
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
Margaret Deland
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
Margaret Deland
Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.
Margaret Deland
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
Margaret Deland
nothing is as conventional as adolescence.
Margaret Deland
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
Margaret Deland
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret Deland
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
Margaret Deland
