783 Quotes by George MacDonald

Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.

No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.

The ideal flower of hospitality is almost unknown to the rich; it can hardly be grown save in the gardens of the poor; it is one of their beatitudes.

All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.

Really he was not an interesting man: short, broad, stout, red-faced, with an immense amount of mental inertia, discharging itself in constant lingual activity about little nothings.

When some pray, they lift heavy thoughts from the ground, only to drop them on it again; others send up their prayers in living shapes, this or that, the nearest likeness to each. All live things were thoughts to begin with, and are fit therefore to be used by those that think. When one says to the great Thinker: – ‘Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!’ that is a prayer – a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.

In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does .

As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone – which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart...

I am his, and he shall do with me just as he likes.