Elizabeth Goudge Quotes - Page 3

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• Marriage is a very long process.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Long, Process

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

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  Perfect, Moments, Lost

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Hate, Waste

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• What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.

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  Mark, Reverence

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Giving, Demand, Hospitality

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

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  Nice, Struggle, Might

  Elizabeth Goudge (1938). “Towers in the Mist”

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• But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

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  Clever, Blood, Brave

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• One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

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  Giving, One Love, Deeper

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

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  Distance, Perspective, Firsts

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.91, Penguin

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• Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

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  Niece, Eye, Next

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.39, Penguin

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• Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

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  Art, Self, Paper

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• All we are asked to bear we can bear.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Bears

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• The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

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  Loss, Men, Confusion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were left behind, together with the bitterness of not getting what one wanted. One's values, too, were altered. Gifts that once one took for granted, sunshine and birdsong, freedom from pain, sleep and one's daily bread, seemed now so extraordinarily precious.

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  Pain, Sleep, Sunshine

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• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

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  Sacrifice, Play, Self

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  God, Hands, Safe

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• I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

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  Eye, Whales, Impossible

  Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.219, Hachette UK

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