Margaret George Quotes
I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.
The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.
We are always tortured by our memory of the last time we were with anyone, what we said, what we did not say.
The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.
But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.
Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.
The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.
