Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

… it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

Doe

Great People

People

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

Imagination

Loss

Lost Love

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born – he is made.

Born

Parent

Poet

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

Marriage

Men

Perfect

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Incompetence

Money

Untrustworthy

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

Faults

Real

Roots

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, ‘Do come in, it’s so warm’ – it is not always warm.

Boys

Marriage

People

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Action

Mother

Parent

Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change–nothing but change!

Change

This World

World

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port–heaven,– Friend, what years could us divide?

Friends

Heaven

Years

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Absolutes

Action

Angel

Arrogance

Aunt

Autumn

Blessing

Block

Blow

Born

Boys

Bulls

Cabins

Change

Children

Christmas

Clothes

Comfort

Common

Constructs

Destiny

Died

Discipline

Doe

Doors

Ends

Eye

Faces

Father

Faults

Fearless

Feet

Flower

Forgiving

Friends

Friendship

Fruit

Gay

Girl

God

Great People

Grief

Growing

Hands

Happiness

Happy Life

Heart

Heaven

Home

House

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Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

… it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born – he is made.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, ‘Do come in, it’s so warm’ – it is not always warm.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change–nothing but change!

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port–heaven,– Friend, what years could us divide?

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