Susanna Moodie Quotes


"The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men."
- Susanna Moodie
(Related: Education, Men, Training, Want)

"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
- Susanna Moodie
(Related: HusbLie, First)

"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow."
- Susanna Moodie
(Related: Life, Encouraging, Clouds, Smiles, Today)

"Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child."
- Susanna Moodie
(Related: Love, Character, Children, Dress, Envy, Vanity)

"When things come to the worse, they generally mend."
- Susanna Moodie