43 Quotes by Mary Webb

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Autumn is full of leave-taking.

Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice, a silent sermon moving me to the depths, touching my heart, and stirring up within my soul a yearning to give my all.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.

We are tomorrow's past.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.