Amelia Barr
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barrwas a British novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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 ...
fall evil lips
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
kind trouble written
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
reality doe fiction
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
brother husband son
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
money trials hardship
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
evil mystery enough
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
nature children men
when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
past men eggs
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
revolution accomplished treason
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.