Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share
