Susanna Rowson quotes

“While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.”
-- Susanna Rowson

Source : Susanna Rowson (1991). “Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple”, p.44, Penguin

#Ruins Quotes #Discretion Quotes #Ambivalence Quotes

“The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self ...”
-- Susanna Rowson

Source : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

#Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes #Mind Quotes

“the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.”
-- Susanna Rowson

Source : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.73, Sheba Blake Publishing

#Forgiveness Quotes #Heart Quotes #Errors Quotes

“Tis emblematic, the rose of youth and health soon fades when watered by the tear of affliction.”
-- Susanna Rowson

Source : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

#Rose Quotes #Tears Quotes #Affliction Quotes

“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”

“You can ruin anything if you focus at it.”

“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.”

“To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.”

“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”

“Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?”

“Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.”

“There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.”

Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

“If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.”

Source : Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan

“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”