Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Amelia Barr - Page 2

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Men can bear all things but good days.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.