783 Quotes by George MacDonald

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.