Olive Schreiner Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Olive Schreiner:

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Olive Schreiner

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Olive Schreiner

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Olive Schreiner

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Olive Schreiner

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Olive Schreiner

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Olive Schreiner

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Olive Schreiner