Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

• It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Selfish, Character, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  5 Copy quote

• We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Human Nature, Make The Best Of It, Constructs

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

• It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  People, Trying, Use

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1857.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lost Love, Loss, Imagination

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
  . . . .
  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

  25 Copy quote

• ... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Book, Life Is, Proportion

  4 Copy quote

• God rest you merry, gentlemen,
  Let nothing you dismay,
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born upon this day,
  To save us all from Satan's power
  When we were gone astray.
  O tidings of comfort and joy!
  For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
  Was born on Christmas Day.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Christmas, Jesus, Comfort And Joy

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Real, Roots, Faults

  4 Copy quote

• O the green things growing, the green things growing,
  The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
  I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
  Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Spring, Happy Life

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Green Things Growing”

  8 Copy quote

• The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Wall, Humility, Eye

  5 Copy quote

• Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Happiness, Mean, Ends

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

• A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Home, Rocks, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Magnus and Morna, scene 2, 1922.

  7 Copy quote

• Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time!
  Year after year returning, with a brow
  Of promise, and red lips with longing paled,
  And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
  Of vanished springs, like flowers.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

  7 Copy quote

• To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life Lesson, Struggle, Acceptance

  4 Copy quote

• An author departs; he does not die.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Writing, Doe, Dies

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Dream, Water, Floating

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Outward Bound”

  4 Copy quote

• Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Mean, Selfishness, And Love

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

  4 Copy quote

• Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Girl, Uncles, Aunt

  6 Copy quote

• Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage

  4 Copy quote

• never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Romance, Noble

  4 Copy quote

• When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Style, Cabins, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Weakness, Tyranny, Absolutes

  4 Copy quote

• we are so scornful when we are young!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Youth, Young

  4 Copy quote

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

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  People, Doe, Great People

  4 Copy quote

Page 4 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin