Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik) quote: "I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there lies safe for thee A little nest on the ground.""

Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

But Oh! The blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearless on any subject; with whom...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

of kindness blow the rest away.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neithe...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with wh...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh tho...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about i...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK

An author departs, he does not die
DINAH MARIA MULOCK

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We mus...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh tho...
DINAH MULOCK

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD

So spoke the man whose importance originated in the golden harvest he had reaped with the resistless...
HELEN CRAIK

They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery ...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN)

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chan...
DINAH SHORE

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as...
DINAH KATT

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
DINAH SHORE

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favou...
DINAH SHERIDAN

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.
DINAH SHORE

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chan...
DINAH SHORE

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a...
DINAH SHORE

There are no hopeless situations -- only people who are hopeless about them.
DINAH SHORE

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
DINAH SHORE

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a cha...
DINAH SHORE

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a c...
DINAH SHORE

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you ...
DINAH SHORE

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
DINAH SHORE

When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point...
DINAH MANOFF

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lo...
DINAH SHERIDAN

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choic...
DINAH SHERIDAN

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminate...
DINAH SHORE

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't...
DINAH SHORE

I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a m...
DINAH SHORE

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
DINAH SHERIDAN

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative o...
DINAH SHORE

I told my agent to not tell me about any offers - I didn't want to be tempted - so I didn't learn un...
DINAH SHERIDAN

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farme...
DINAH SHORE

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.
DINAH SHERIDAN

There's no secret about mine-to do another Genevieve with John, Ken and Kay!
DINAH SHERIDAN

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
DINAH SHERIDAN

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
DINAH SHERIDAN

During the last week of location work out on the Yorkshire moors near Howarth, I learned that I had ...
DINAH SHERIDAN

Because of double hip replacements, I don't play regular golf, but we do lots of putting with deligh...
DINAH SHERIDAN

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!
DINAH SHERIDAN

We've been included in the governor's emergency declaration, but we have not heard from FEMA the Fed...
DINAH PHILLIPS

They've notified the other folks that there is potential danger.
DINAH PHILLIPS

Those folks all showed up for work. With those employees and non-union managers it went fine.
DINAH PHILLIPS

We feel challenging people in their craft is key. They feel elevated. People become artists by osmos...
DINAH MUELLER

We can get out whatever's hot.
DINAH MUELLER

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on th...
DINAH SHERIDAN

I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.
DINAH MANOFF

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
DINAH SHERIDAN

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straig...
DINAH SHORE

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
MRS. JAMIESON

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra...
MRS. JAMIESON

Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
MRS. PARR

He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY

He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MRS. MANLEY

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY

Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY

Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY

A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY

No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY

A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
MRS. EUSDEN

Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM

You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES

At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT

The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT

As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (use...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you unde...
ALEXANDER MCGREGOR ROSE (USED PSEUDONYM A.M.R. GORDON)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK)

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]
JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES)

How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
JOHN WILSON (2) (USED PSEUDONYM CHRISTOPHER NORTH)

When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox A...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)

It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its wi...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK

If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ide...
KENNETH J.W. CRAIK

Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES)

Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.)

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

I feel in every smile a chain.
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and let the rest of the world wonder how you did it.
MARIA

Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished a...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD

Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER

Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for othe...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE

The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within ...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the street...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL

C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES

Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL

Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON

She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass! Spring up like Summer grass, ...
HAROLD BEGBIE (USED PSEUDONYM "A GENTLEMAN WITH A DUSTER")

Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, ...
ERNEST LOUIS VICTOR JULES L'EPINE (USED PSEUDONYM JEAN QUATRELLES)

From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero. Mittens with the fur-side ins...
REV. GEORGE AUGUSTUS STRONG (USED PSEUDONYM MARC ANTONY HENDERSON)

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
SARA PAYSON (SARA PAYSON WILLIS PARTON) (USED PSEUDONYM FANNY FERN)

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK

Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - se...
MARIA MONTESSORI

It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in f...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
MARIA MONTESSORI

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
MARIA MONTESSORI

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No,...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T...
MARIA BARTIROMO

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and expe...
MARIA MONTESSORI

What is a scientist? We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a m...
MARIA MONTESSORI

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
MARIA SEMPLE

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
MARIA MENOUNOS

I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person...
MARIA SHRIVER

Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl...
MARIA BARTIROMO

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the diff...
MARIA MONTESSORI

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a con...
MARIA MONTESSORI

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all c...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to...
MARIA MONTESSORI

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
MARIA MITCHELL

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
MARIA MITCHELL

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
MARIA ROBINSON

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!
MARIA EDGEWORTH

We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our ...
MARIA MONTESSORI

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
MARIA MITCHELL

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
MARIA EDGEWORTH

I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there lies safe for thee A little nest on the ground."

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I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there lies safe for thee A little nest on the ground."

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