Mary Findlater > Quotes

“A man can never be as rude as he feels, which is one of the drawbacks of civilisation.”
― Mary Findlater, The Affair at the Inn

“(she told me her name, though she might have seen, I am sure, that I was simply dying not to know it)”
― Mary Findlater, The Affair at the Inn

“It is one of the curious effects of a too passionate imaginative nature that its forebodings outrun time. So that often when the dreaded circumstance really arrives, it seems as nothing compared to the hours of imaginative misery that went before, as a line that has already burnt will stop a prairie fire.”
― Mary Findlater, Crossriggs

“Hush," Robinetta answered, putting a finger on his lip; "it isn't a question of how great you are or how wonderful: it is a question of what we can be to each other.”
― Mary Findlater Kate Douglas Wiggin. Jane Findlater Allan McAulay

“Taste, I suppose, is only a constant, delicate expression of opinion.”
― Mary Findlater, Crossriggs