Jean Ingelow Quotes
1820–1897 England
Jean Ingelow (March 17, 1820 – July 20, 1897) was an English poet and novelist.
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Also known as: Ingelow, Jean
66 quotes
Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?
There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.
A man's world, but woman bides her time.
"I'm like a good clock," said Crayshaw, "I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too."
It is a comely fashion to be glad,—
Joy is the grace we say to God.
All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.
A girl and a guinea are both alike. You never know how good they are till you ring them.
But two are walking apart forever
And wave their hands for a mute farewell.
Sorrows humanize our race;
Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.
Let me be only sure; for sooth to tell
The sorest dole is doubt.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Ingelow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.