112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

anger as well as love casts out fear ...

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

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