Art Quote by Miles Franklin

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

— Miles Franklin

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had…

— Miles Franklin

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

— Miles Franklin

If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of…

— Miles Franklin

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

— Miles Franklin

Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.

— Miles Franklin

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

— Miles Franklin

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and…

— Miles Franklin

Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!

— Miles Franklin

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:…

— Miles Franklin

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing…

— Miles Franklin

“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials…

— Miles Franklin