Mrs. Balfour Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Mrs. Balfour


A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein.	1
A mouse-trap; easy to enter, but not easy to get out of.	2
Contagious enthusiasm.	3
Fearless gentleness is the most beautiful of feminine attractions, born of modesty and love.	4
Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.	5
Mankind’s struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.	6
The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.	7
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.	8
The colored slave that waits upon thought.	9
The glow of the angel in woman.	10
The scapegoat which we make responsible for all our crimes and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have no wish to strive against it.	11
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it speaks at once to the imagination.	12
What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?	13
Young Crime’s finishing-school.	14