112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

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.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

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!

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!

if you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear ...

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.