112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished – polished! or else you insult your readers.

Isn’t there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don’t believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!

Absurdity is the one thing love can’t stand; it can overlook anything else, – coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, – but just be ridiculous and that’s the end of it!

When two duties jostle each other, one of ’em isn’t a duty.

You can’t have genius without patience.

Hearts don’t come when Reason whistles to ’em.

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.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn’t one or two bad habits.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader’s frame of mind.