Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
Olive Schreiner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Olive Schreiner
Age: 65 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 24
Died: 1920
Died: December 11
Author
Writer
Cape of Good Hope
Olive Emily Albertina Schreiner
Ralph Iron
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
Justify
Bitter
Ideals
Form
Become
Right
People
More quotes by 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
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
Olive Schreiner
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man she knows the history of human flesh she knows its cost he does not.
Olive Schreiner
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not to go to church or not to say his prayers right or not to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?
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
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .
Olive Schreiner
Soul, what have I to do with you?
Olive Schreiner
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
Olive Schreiner
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
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
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
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
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
Olive Schreiner
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
Olive Schreiner
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
Olive Schreiner
I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
Olive Schreiner
