Louise Imogen Guiney Quotes

• A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Kindness, Past, Guests

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Children, Optimism, Born

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• [Death:] The one inexorable thing!

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Death, Inexorable

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• Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Life, Holiday, Reality

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• The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Loss, Hay, May

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• High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Hate, Farewell, Hatred

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1909). “Happy Endings: The Collected Lyrics of Louise Imogen Guiney”

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• Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Trifles, Small Things

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Passion, Collecting, My Own

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”

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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Country, Giving, Brain

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”

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• The hand betrays the heart.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Hands, Betray

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Men, Sorrow, Desire

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• Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Spring, Soil, Misconstrued

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

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  Heart, Ambition, Thinking

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Blessing, Superficial, Reverence

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• With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Girlhood

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1900). “The Martyrs' Idyl and Shorter Poems”

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• Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Family, Mold, Murder

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Very few can be trusted with an education.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Education, Trusted

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Pearls, Slipping, Youth

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