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Myrtle Reed was an American author born on September 27, 1874, and passed away on August 17, 1911. She is known for her unique writing style and her vivid portrayals of Southern life in the United States.

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All Ifs Way World Men People May Heart Sometimes Giving Joy Years Age Firsts Littles Seems Soul Thinking Trouble Bitterness Book

Famous Myrtle Reed Quotes

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

Ifs World Way Believe Use Would Be Three Heaven Fire Generations Advice Experience Fingers Folks Scar Poke Three Generations

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.”

Ifs Art Circumstances

Book:The White Shield

Source: The White Shield

“The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.”

Ifs Courses Interest Morality Negative Be Good Conventions Conventional

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women were only out of the way, he would come back.”

Ifs Men Way Suffering Three Lovers Dating Reform Delusion Rejected Heartbroken

Author:Myrtle Reed

“the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!”

Ifs World Has Beens Known Dog Fairs

Author:Myrtle Reed

“it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.”

People Ifs Littles Long Seems Strong White Sweet Dresses Green Sweetness Little Women Lavender Bonnets

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace

“If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Kind Earth Easy Relative In-laws

Author:Myrtle Reed

“In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.”

Ifs Moments Memories Perfect Sun Shapes Flash Live In The Moment Perfect Moments

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace

“As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.”

Ifs Magic

Book:Later Love Letters of a Musician

Source: Later Love Letters of a Musician

“Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.”

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.”

Ifs World Way Looks Sorrow Right Way

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace

“If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.”

People Ifs Inspirational Easy Walks Path Feet Walking Smooth

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Clothes Memorable Charitable Old Clothes

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.”

Ifs Men May Effort Secret Existence Taken He Man Cold Fairs Window Inner Peace Penetrate Altars Rubbish Exterior Desolate Cobwebs

Author:Myrtle Reed

About the Author

Born: September 27, 1874
Died: August 17, 1911
Known for: Author
Quotes: 104

Books & Sources

The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle ReedRelated source material

The Spinster BookRelated source material

Old Rose and SilverRelated source material

Master of the VineyardRelated source material

Later Love Letters of a MusicianRelated source material

The Master's ViolinRelated source material

Lavender and Old LaceRelated source material

The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural HistoryRelated source material

The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort DearbornRelated source material

A Spinner In The SunRelated source material

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