Coming home Quote by Selma Lagerlöf

What is so certain of victory as patience?

— Selma Lagerlöf

It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three…

— Selma Lagerlöf

“He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash…

— Selma Lagerlöf

Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

— Selma Lagerlöf

“Assim manda a justiça - a inteligência e a sabedoria foram e são ainda hoje as qualidades que transformam o mendigo em príncipe.”

— Selma Lagerlöf

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

— Selma Lagerlöf

More die in flight than in battle.

— Selma Lagerlöf

Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and…

— Selma Lagerlöf

“What Gosta,' he said to himself, 'can you no longer endure? You have been hardened in poverty all of your life; you have heard…

— Selma Lagerlöf

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the…

— Selma Lagerlöf

Women can do nothing that has permanence.

— Selma Lagerlöf