Susanna Moodie quote: "Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child."

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the ...
SUSANNA MOODIE

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
SUSANNA MOODIE

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of l...
SUSANNA MOODIE

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different ...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the d...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar,...
SUSANNA MOODIE

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the d...
SUSANNA MOODIE

I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie dow...
SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE

I served very well and I was returning the ball very well in the second set. I hit some pretty big r...
WESLEY MOODIE

If she runs well the trickle-down effect through the whole of her family will result in incremental ...
DAVID MOODIE

With Paint he was in great form and there wasn't as much depth (in the field) as there is this year.
DAVID MOODIE

It was a great effort. He's right on track now.
DAVID MOODIE

I don't think it would be fair to exclude players from the LET,
JANICE MOODIE

It is frustrating that we haven't had a tournament in such a long time. There were all sorts of prom...
JANICE MOODIE

Catriona played brilliantly, and I felt I really hung in there. I didn't hit too many greens but I g...
JANICE MOODIE

I'm feeling pretty good about that. I maybe only had two or three chances of making bogey. Apart fro...
JANICE MOODIE

I'm really happy about how I played today even though I shot level par. But it was more of the battl...
JANICE MOODIE

To be honest with you, I had a couple of good up and downs for par towards the middle part there whe...
JANICE MOODIE

How can the Solheim Cup be a goal for me if I am depending on a captain's pick? That is where I have...
JANICE MOODIE

I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was fo...
SUSANNA HOFFS

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret....
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seeme...
SUSANNA CLARKE

You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance lik...
SUSANNA CLARK

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its...
SUSANNA MOORE

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everyth...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spi...
SUSANNA MOORE

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before ...
SUSANNA MOORE

Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you t...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Every time you feel lost, confused, think about trees, remember how they grow. Remember that a tree ...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you fo...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Ska jag säga dig ett fel vi ständigt begår? Att vi får för oss att våra liv är oföränderlig...
SUSANNA TAMARO

I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened spec...
SUSANNA MOORE

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian...
SUSANNA MOORE

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out oppor...
SUSANNA PHILLIPS

He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day a...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, ...
SUSANNA HOFFS

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribbl...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself?...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

[A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear.
SUSANNA CLARKE

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you thin...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the cr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices...
SUSANNA MILLER

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE

In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be goo...
SUSANNA HOFFS

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well a...
SUSANNA MOORE

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed t...
SUSANNA CLARKE

The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, j...
SUSANNA CLARKE

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of mag...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other peop...
SUSANNA CLARKE

If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God,...
SUSANNA WESLEY

The exhibit will focus on Slovaks in church and school, in business, sports, entertainment, politics...
SUSANNA SWADE

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s...
SUSANNA MOORE

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire fam...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
SUSANNA CLARKE

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limit...
SUSANNA THOMPSON

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war...
SUSANNA CLARKE

The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not o...
SUSANNA ROWSON

Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE

We insist on these commissions finding and naming the officials responsible for the negligence that ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

We became convinced that there was misinformation on many issues.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

Lying is a thriving vocation.
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE

For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except f...
SUSANNA CLARKE

We spoke about those who perished, those who had their lives cut short. We spoke about irresponsibil...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

It was a difficult conversation -- but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been throu...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We need to look him in the eyes and tell him that he is responsible for the deaths of our children.....
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

The government is supposed to guarantee our lives, take responsibility for our lives, and they haven...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We will ask questions and demand an answer.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We ask questions, and they don't answer.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

We were outraged that no officials came ... when they carry responsibility for what happened. These ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

It is important in principle to know the truth so that something like this cannot happen again, and ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

The most painful questions are left unanswered.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

I have been quite put out of temper this morning and someone ought to die for it.
SUSANNA CLARKE

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet th...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Without words, thought couldn't express itself.
SUSANNA HALL

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You...
SUSANNA CLARK

I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I&#...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive...
SUSANNA PHILLIPS

So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand u...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.
SUSANNA CLARKE

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I think we said everything that we wanted to say. We spoke about responsibility, the fate of childre...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I can write most places. I particularly like writing on trains. Being between places is quite libera...
SUSANNA CLARKE

It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rul...
SUSANNA MOORE

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite ano...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. I...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a l...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asp...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofita...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poet...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our pr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all s...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to pr...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, desp...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pl...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dro...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew ...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet wi...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, t...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. V...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' ha...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

Captain Harcourt-Bruce was not only dashing, handsome, and brave, he was also rather romantic. The r...
SUSANNA CLARKE

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we m...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

Sewaktu kanak-kanak aku percaya pada cinta, sama seperti aku percaya pada peri. Namun pada suatu har...
SUSANNA TAMARO

Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose...
SUSANNA CLARKE

And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had....
SUSANNA KEARSLEY

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
SUSANNA KAYSEN

To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort ...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not troub...
SUSANNA CLARKE

I reached out my hand, England's rivers turned and flowed the other way...
I reached out my han...
SUSANNA CLARKE

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She...
SUSANNA KAYSEN

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
SUSANNA CLARKE

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover in...
SUSANNA CLARKE

And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE

Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

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Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

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