194 Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people – those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;.

The end was present in the beginning and the beginning in the end, so that there was neither beginning nor end but only the perfection of the whole. Life had come round full circle, and the aging man that he was admitted it not with weariness but with a welling up within him of refreshment that was like the welling up of youth.

In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won’t ever be a time when I shan’t know him.

Cleanliness’, chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece’s delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, ’comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

Could mere loving be a life’s work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?

A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.