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
stars wall men
Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
men wife virtue
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
grandmother men hats
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
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.
men judging might
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
expected hold holds pint
A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
teaching useless genius
It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.
responsibility loss anxiety
we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.
vanity people morality
moral vanity is the snare of good people.
mother thinking hypocrisy
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
mother children hate
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
promise ems
When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
regret selfish may
nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...
responsibility people genius
I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.