Olive Schreiner Quotes
"Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn."
- Olive Schreiner
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Being, World)
"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Work, Heart)
"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Dreams, Fathers, Man, Will)
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Love, God, Blood, Old, Poets, Right, Sin, Water)
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Men, Power, Being)
"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Mother, Man)
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Sleep, Will)
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
- Olive Schreiner
(Related: Thoughts, Fools)