Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
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
Connections
Birth
Consciousness
Rather
Death
Self
Puerile
Love
Modesty
Connection
More quotes by 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
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
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
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.
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
I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.
Margaret Deland
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
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
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
A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
Margaret Deland
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
Margaret Deland
We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.
Margaret Deland
Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret Deland
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Margaret Deland
there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.
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 fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.
Margaret Deland
it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.
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
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.
Margaret Deland
