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
horse devil conceit
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
lonely temptation devil
we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...
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.
promise ems
When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.
responsibility people genius
I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
self connections modesty
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.
moving silence youth
silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?
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
two ems duty
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
real divorce decree
Real divorce takes place without a decree ...
sex brain
Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!
hero greatness people
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.