Margaret Hale Quotes

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

One of the first evidences of a real lady, is that she should be modest. By modesty we mean that she shall not say, do, nor wear anything that would cause her to appear gaudy, ill-bred, or unchaste. There should be nothing about her to attract unfavorable attention, nothing in her dress or manner that would give a man an excuse for vulgar comment. When we dress contrary to the rule of modesty we give excuse for unwholesome thoughts in the mind of those who look upon us, and every girl who oversteps these bounds makes herself liable to misunderstanding and insult, though she may be innocent of any such intention. ~ Margaret Hale

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run ... ~ Margaret Atwood

Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm. ~ Margaret Wertheim

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. ~ Margaret Atwood

Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in. ~ Margaret Ball

He thought of it as a contest, like the children at school who would twist your arm and say Give in? Give in? until you did; then they would let go. He didn't love me, it was an idea of himself he loved and he wanted someone to join him, anyone would do, I didn't matter so I didn't have to care. ~ Margaret Atwood

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before. ~ Margaret Mead

She went a little fucking overboard on her anger." He looks at me. "Her daughters are all a bit nuts, so you know exactly where they get it from."
"She called the fucking cops on me," I retort. "That's not nuts that's
"
"It's nuts," he rebuts.
"It's fucked up."
"That too," he says. ~ Krista Ritchie

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move! ~ Margaret Cho

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient. ~ Margaret Mitchell

Hope doesn't mean anything ... Action's the only thing that counts. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use. ~ Courtney Milan

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. ~ Margaret Of Valois

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors. ~ Margaret Heffernan

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases. ~ Margaret Chan

You're beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights. ~ Mandy Hale

Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We. ~ Margaret Atwood

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. ~ Margaret Thatcher

She had chained herself to her place in society and the family through the maternal functions of her nature, and only chains thus strong could have bound her lot as a brood animal for the masculine civilizations of the world. ~ Margaret Sanger

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government. ~ Margaret Thatcher

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests. ~ Margaret Mead

There were places you didn't want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive. But ~ Margaret Atwood

Grandmother's English heritage meant that she had that Empire voice, that come-out-of-your-grass-huts-and-give-us-your-treasures-for-our-museums kind of voice. The woman could boom. It was seriously terrifying. Even years later when my father imitated her and she seemed part Margaret Thatcher and part horse Aeney and I were still frightened. ~ Niall Williams

But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope. ~ Margaret Fuller

She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are:
Where have you been all my life? they ask.
Where have I been all my life? she replies. ~ Margaret Atwood

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it. ~ Margaret Mitchell

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea. ~ Margaret Atwood

With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never be sweet? ~ Margaret Fuller

A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent. ~ Shannon Hale

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it. ~ Margaret Halsey

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs - it's been documented - discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is."
So?"
So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. ~ Margaret Atwood

It disturbs me that he can remember some of these things about himself, but not others; that the things he's lost or misplaced exist now only for me. If he's forgotten so much, what have I forgotten? ~ Margaret Atwood

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not. ~ Margaret Atwood

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together ~ Margaret Truman

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice. ~ Margaret Atwood

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls ~ Margaret Thatcher