Geraldine Jewsbury Quotes

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I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Geraldine Jewsbury
But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

Geraldine Jewsbury
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Geraldine Jewsbury
I feel to love you more and more every day, and you will laugh, but I feel towards you much more like a lover than a female friend! What would I give to see you for an hour!

Geraldine Jewsbury
Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

Geraldine Jewsbury
Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

Geraldine Jewsbury
People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions...

Geraldine Jewsbury
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Geraldine Jewsbury
Men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

Geraldine Jewsbury
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Geraldine Jewsbury