A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.” — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other,… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
