Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Caroline Norton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English author Caroline Norton.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell was an active English social reformer and author. She left her husband in 1836, who sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (adultery). The jury threw out the claim, but she failed to gain a divorce and was denied access to her three sons. Norton's campaigning led to the passage of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. She modelled for the fresco of Justice in the House of Lords by Daniel Maclise, who chose her as a famous victim of injustice.

English - Author | March 22, 1808 - June 15, 1877

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Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

Caroline Norton

O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.

Caroline Norton

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

Caroline Norton

A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

Caroline Norton

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

Caroline Norton

We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.

Caroline Norton

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm— Not lost but gone before.

Caroline Norton

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Caroline Norton

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

Caroline Norton

Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.

Caroline Norton

Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.

Caroline Norton

God made all pleasures innocent.

Caroline Norton

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

Caroline Norton

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

Caroline Norton

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

Caroline Norton

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

Caroline Norton

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought?what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

Caroline Norton