Margaret Deland - People Quotes

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A great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness — or their own.

Margaret Deland

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

Margaret Deland

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Margaret Deland

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, — no doubt we are, — but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Margaret Deland

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

Margaret Deland

Did you ever notice, Ellen, that the truth always hurts people's feelings?

Margaret Deland

War is wicked, because it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

Margaret Deland