Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Johnston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Mary Johnston.
Last updated on November 28, 2024.
Mary Johnston

Mary Johnston was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels. Johnston was also an active member of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, using her writing skills and notability to draw attention to the cause of women's suffrage in Virginia.

She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of late fell away. The wood that had been so gloomy was a place of sunlight and song; had red roses sprung up around me I had felt no wonder. She came softly and slowly with bent head and hanging arms, not knowing that I was near. I went not to meet her - it was my fancy to have her come to me still - but when she raised her eyes and saw me I fell upon my knees.
My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper. — © Mary Johnston
My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.
All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless.
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