By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed. Margaret Deland More Quotes by Margaret Deland More Quotes From Margaret Deland When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty. Margaret Deland ems duty two Real divorce takes place without a decree. Margaret Deland decree divorce real the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light. Margaret Deland light jewels blue the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it! Margaret Deland clergy ministry matrimony There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls. Margaret Deland arrogance doubt people To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. Margaret Deland cobwebs successful self I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits. Margaret Deland critters habit two Convictions do not imply reasons. Margaret Deland conviction reason Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Margaret Deland grief pay world Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness. Margaret Deland reconcile habit doe the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. Margaret Deland habit break years There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it. Margaret Deland hate mother children What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. Margaret Deland hypocrisy mother thinking moral vanity is the snare of good people. Margaret Deland vanity morality people we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility. Margaret Deland anxiety responsibility loss there are few things that are more endearing than the grace of listening with attention; indeed, it is more than endearing, it is impressive - for no one knows what wisdom lies concealed in silence! Margaret Deland silence grace lying Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament Margaret Deland wall stars men When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter. Margaret Deland frail bombshells letters Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles. Margaret Deland cake cooking people a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes! Margaret Deland unhappiness cutting taste
