Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
