25 Quotations by Olive Schreiner
- 1. A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advanta ...
- 2. Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
- 3. From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cl ...
- 4. I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and ...
- 5. I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, q ...
- 6. I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life ...
- 7. Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is ...
- 8. My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those ...
- 9. My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those ...
- 10. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
- 11. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
- 12. Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, ...
- 13. Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of know ...
- 14. Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when ...
- 15. Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born ...
- 16. Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so com ...
- 17. The surest sign of fitness is success.
- 18. The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its y ...
- 19. There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them ...
- 20. There is nothing ridiculous in love.
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