Best 16 quotes of Louise Imogen Guiney on MyQuotes

A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.

I am not in the least given to any violent interest in womankind, however, such as has addled the country's brains of late. Give me a manandwoman world: 'tis good enough!

Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

The hand betrays the heart.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.