Quotes by Margaret George

Margaret George

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine – that is, activity – which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Archery

Boredom

Medicine

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

Archery

Brother

Cousin

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

Betrayal

Rainy Day

Wind

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Frost

Hats

Window

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation’s official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person’s philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

Men

Philosophy

Worry

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Ignorance

Land

Travel

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

Regret

Sometimes

Sorrow

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

Flattery

Sense Of Humor

Two

It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown.

Focus

Forever

Swim

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

Fate

Support

Swings

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Archery

Betrayal

Body

Boredom

Broken Heart

Brother

Cousin

Criminals

Darkness

Dear Ones

Diversion

Effort

Envy

Excuse

Fate

Flattery

Focus

Forever

Frost

Giving

Glasses

Good Night

Happens

Hate

Hats

Heart

Ignorance

Iron

Journey

Kindness

Land

Lasts

Life

Life Is Like

Light

Lips

Littles

Looks

Loss

Love Someone

Lying

May

Medicine

Memories

Men

Mercy

Moon

Mouths

Night

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Quotes by Margaret George

Margaret George

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine – that is, activity – which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

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