Margaret Deland People Quotations

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.