Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie > Quotes

“If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.”
― Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

“There is often a great deal more of the past in the future than there was in the past itself at the time... one learns little by little that a thing is not over because it is not happening with noise and shape or outward sign.”
― Anne Thackeray Ritchie

“Whitewash and blue cotton, and weary faces in the women’s wards; whitewash and brown fustian, and sullen, stupid looks in the men’s; this was all that Trevithic carried away in his brain that first day; - misery and whitewash, and a dull, choking atmosphere from which he was ashamed almost to escape into the open fields outside the town, across which his way led back to the station.”
― Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Jack the Giant Killer

“The gracious fancy kingdom vanishes at cock-crow, we know. It is not among realities so wonderful and beautiful that we can scarce realize them that we must look for it. Its greatest triumphs are where no other light shines to brighten, - by weary sick-beds; when distance and loneliness oppress. Who cannot remember days and hours when a foolish conceit has come now and again, like a "flower growing on the edge of a precipice," to distract the dizzy thoughts from the dark depths below?”
― Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Jack the Giant Killer

“Here in our country cottage the long summer is coming to an end, in falling leaves and setting suns, and gold and russet, where green shoots were twinkling a little time ago.”
― Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, Jack the Giant Killer