Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
mediocrity genius consideration
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
injustice sixth-sense
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
age old-age verdict
Old age is the verdict of life.
men treats brutes
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
gratitude negative may
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
forgiveness forgiving enemy
To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
evil wickedness may
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
sweet men bridges
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
soul youth
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
men wicked world
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
good-day men bears
Men can bear all things but good days ...
bruised limitation
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.
destiny surprise
... love, like destiny, loves surprises ...
giving folly offence
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly -- I know not which is the greater ...