Henry Handel Richardson > Quotes

“After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.”
― Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

“The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child ”
― Henry Handel Richardson

“Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.”
― Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

“She could not then know that, even for the squarest peg, the right hole may ultimately be found”
― Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

“For out of it all rose the vague, crude picture of woman as the prey of man. Man was animal, a composite of lust and cruelty, with no aim but that of brutally taking his pleasure: something monstrous, yet to be adored; annihilating, yet to be sought after; something to flee and, at the same time, to entice, with every art at one's disposal.”
― Henry Handel Richardson

“Laura tried her utmost, with an industry born of despair.”
― Henry Handel Richardson, The Getting of Wisdom

“Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.”
― Henry Handel Richardson

“The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth”
― Henry Handel Richardson