Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

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Wiggins was not one of those emotional dogs who let themselves go with quivering whiskers, hot nose, and dribbling tongue.

Elizabeth Goudge
I don't think there's anything more tiring... than expecting people who don't turn up.

Elizabeth Goudge
If you'll let me have my way first with the sick bodies... you can have your way later with their souls. That's only fair and right; though I shall have the advantage of you, the bodies being existences in actual fact and the souls mere figments of your imagination.

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This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority — headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor — ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

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The shocking discovery that her way was not necessarily good because it was hers had been epoch-making in her life.

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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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It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

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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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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself — like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

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What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

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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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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people — those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

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