All Olive Schreiner Quotes
- There was never a great man who had not a great mother. Great
- Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… Adult
- Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. Inside
- Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the… Beautiful
- Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because… Always One
- The surest sign of fitness is success. Fitness
- Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked;… Crowned
- Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It… Blood
- When the curtain falls no one is ready Curtain
- No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but… All
- We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. Been
- Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. Bring
- There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let… Arrow
- If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut? Bird
- Soul, what have I to do with you? Funny
- How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. Fool
- Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. Asked
- There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another. Beautiful
- There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. Absolute
- They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. Accurately