Louise Imogen Guiney famous quotes

07-19-2025

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Children #Optimism #Born
I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Country #Giving #Brain
With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Girlhood
The hand betrays the heart ...
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Heart #Hands #Betray
Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Men #Sorrow #Desire
Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Pearls #Slipping #Youth
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Life #Holiday #Reality
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Spring #Soil #Misconstrued
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Kindness #Past #Guests
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ...
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Family #Mold #Murder
Very few can be trusted with an education.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Education #Trusted
[Death:] The one inexorable thing!
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Death
My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Passion #Collecting
Character demonstrates itself in trifles.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Character #Trifles #Small Things
No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Heart #Ambition #Thinking
High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Hate #Farewell #Hatred
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Blessing #Superficial #Reverence
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Character #Law #Broken

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