Quotes About George

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

That's a power outlet, stupid, not an information terminal." Artoo

That's all nonsense, said Curdie. I don't know what you mean. Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

The secret of your own heart you can never know; but you can know Him who knows its secret.

Complaint against God is far nearer to God than indifference about Him.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the business only of the clergy to care for souls.

George MacDonald

Now, you would hardly credit it, but my wife believes every fairy-tale that ever was written. I cannot account for it. She is a most sensible woman in everything else." "But should not that make you treat her belief with something of respect, though you cannot share in it yourself?

Although I had as yet no right to the honours of a knight, I ventured to conclude that the chamber was indeed intended for me; and, opening

the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

Here lies David Elginbrod Have mercy on my soul, dear God, As I would ye if I were God And ye were David Elginbrod.

Justice demands your punishment, because justice demands, and will have, the destruction of sin.

The praise of men, and the love of that praise, had now restored him to his own good graces.

Love is as lovely in the old as in the young–lovelier when in them, as often, more sympathetic and unselfish, that is true.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

I dreamt-' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream itself, and there was a memory connected with it that had swum into his mind in the few seconds after waking.

February your grandmother!

The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

The clerks are French, and, like most French people, are in a bad temper till they have eaten their lunch.

Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory.