112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

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