Eliza Lynn Linton quotes

Eliza Lynn Linton quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? What kind of men should we have as the result of the exchange?”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”
-- Eliza Lynn Linton

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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”
“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”
“You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

Source : Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I love life - thatâ€™s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”
“Only silence is great; all else is weakness.”

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