112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

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