783 Quotes by George MacDonald

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!"Not what he pleases, but what he can.

A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same.

The one principle of hell is – “I am my own

The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.

The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

There are women," returned my uncle, "some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power. The very pleasure of their consciousness consists in the knowledge that they have power--not power to do things, but power to make other people do things." [Uncle; Flight of the Shadow]