All Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
- Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Absurd
- Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. All
- There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you,… According
- Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a… Dead
- Don't waste hate on pink geranium. Geranium
- In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character. Attention
- All we are asked to bear we can bear. All
- Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never… Been
- The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… All
- Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses… Beating
- There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were… Age
- She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many… Always Done
- Acting a part is not always synonymous with lying; it is far often the best way of serving the truth. It is more truthful to… Act
- A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers. Deserving
- Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and… Adornment
- she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not.… Accepted
- Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance Acknowledge
- In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...… Already Known
- For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it… Bound
- Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because… Animal