Dinah Maria Mulock Craik QUOTES

1 " Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , A Life For A Life

2 " But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , A Life For A Life

3 " A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

4 " Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

5 " The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

6 " It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

7 " The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

8 " What a world it was! Literally swimming in sunshine, from the sparkling sea in the distance, to the beds of marigolds close by--huge marigolds, double and single, mingled with carnations that filled the air with rich autumnal scent, all the more delicious because we feel it is autumnal, and therefore cannot last. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall

9 " I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

10 " A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one; "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

11 " Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , A Life For A Life

12 " Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
But we forget not, never can forget. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

13 " Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts not measured words, but pouring them right out, just as they are. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

14 " [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

15 " It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which makes the real interest of travelling. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall

16 " They were neither of them in a high sphere of life. Rhoda was a farmer’s daughter, the only one among a troop of great rough brothers, some younger, some older than herself. She was not more than twelve years of age, and yet she had been for a year the little mistress of the family, for her mother had long been dead. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , Delphi Complete Works of Dinah Craik (Illustrated)

17 " Oh! my dear children, if you did but know how the heart instinctively turns from a sullen countenance — how hateful is that expression which some like to put on when they are ever so slightly offended, thinking it a point of honour not to smile or speak, but to look sulky for hours — how such a look changes the warmest love of parent, or sister, or friend, into dislike! "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , Delphi Complete Works of Dinah Craik (Illustrated)

18 " The only real parting is when there is no love left to part from "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

19 " I could hear the voice that, speaking to me, was always tender with pity—yet not pity enough to wound: I could see the peculiar smile just creeping round his grave mouth—that irrepressible smile, indicating the atmosphere of thorough heart-cheerfulness, which ripens all the fruits of a noble nature, and without which the very noblest has about it something unwholesome, blank, and cold. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik , John Halifax, Gentleman

20 " I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy. "

― Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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