Quotes by Schreiner, Olive

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardl >>

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. >>

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers hand >>

Quotations about Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. >>

The only victory over love is flight. >>

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is lov >>

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive