1,848 Quotes About Doors

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.