Margaret Deland
Margaret Deland
Margaret Delandwas an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 February 1857
evil goodness badness
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.
gossip amusement insult
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
safety aprons strings
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
names evil moments
... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
fall dust iron
... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?
heart ems reason
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.
dog cat fighting
Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.
beautiful dog faithful
... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.
hate enemy kind
If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.
liars men white
... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
memories floating wells
... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.
arrogant conviction conceit
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
book sapphires insult
Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.
happiness secret facts
The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion ...