Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe.

American - Novelist | March 5, 1840 - January 24, 1894

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It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Constance Fenimore Woolson

In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars, In floating, curling sprays, The golden flower comes shining though the woods These February days; Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town, To bring her gayly in, This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida - The yellow jessamine.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

Constance Fenimore Woolson

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Constance Fenimore Woolson