“Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.”
Source: The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
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Famous Amelia Barr Quotes
“Forethought spares afterthought.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“A good message will always find a messenger.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.”
“move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.”
Source: The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
“youth is always sure that change must mean something better.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“Laughter is always fatal to feeling.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“the matrimonial shoe pinches me.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: The Belle of Bowling Green
“the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart
“All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.”
Source: The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
“... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.”
Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.”
Source: Jan Vedder's Wife
“Kindness is always fashionable.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
“The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.”
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography
Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography