Literary Quotes
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"No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. 'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said. 'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie. 'You do not know what for.' 'You do, ma'am. That is enough."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a beginning of the cure of the whole human race."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"What does it all mean?' I said. 'A good question,' he rejoined: 'nobody knows what anything is; a man can learn only what a thing means. Whether he do, depends on the use he is making of it."
Quote by -George MacDonald
"But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?"
Quote by -George MacDonald
"My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."
Quote by -Groucho Marx
"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
Quote by -Groucho Marx
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers." (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)"
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
Quote by -Gustave Flaubert