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Amelia Barr, a British novelist, was born on March 29, 1831, and died on March 10, 1919. Known for her delicate emotions and profound social insight, her works had a significant impact on British literature at the end of the 19th century.

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Famous Amelia Barr Quotes

“A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.”

Men Ready Twenties Fascinating Sixty

Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.”

Men Children Action Nature Fiction Garments Thoughts And Actions

Book:The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

“the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.”

Knows Men May Past Bird Lays Eggs Ancestor Nests Robins Pastures Cuckoos Blackbirds

Book:The Belle of Bowling Green

Source: The Belle of Bowling Green

“politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.”

Knows Men Way Ends Care Turns Interest Democracy Politician Reign Who Cares

Book:The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

“When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.”

Men World May Deserve Wicked Calamity Wicked Man

Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“Men can bear all things but good days.”

Men Bears All Things Good Day

Author:Amelia Barr

“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.”

Men World Long Has Beens Done Fighting Sides Justice Forget Son Brother Bears One Day Husband Injustice Sexism Sensible Long Life Semblance Sixth Sense

Author:Amelia Barr

“... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”

Men May Humanity Teach Sweet Mathematics University Bridges Scotch

Book:All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

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.”

Knows Men Littles Seems Tears Little Man

Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.”

Men Treats Brutes

Author:Amelia Barr

“No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!”

Men Turns Loses Finals Ruins Hopeless Anticipation Ruined

Book:All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

Source: All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography

About the Author

Born: March 29, 1831
Died: March 10, 1919
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 75

Books & Sources

All the Days of My Life: An AutobiographyRelated source material

Jan Vedder's WifeRelated source material

The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel toRelated source material

All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human HeartRelated source material

The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New YorkRelated source material

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