Frieda Lawrence famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
-- Frieda Lawrence

#War #Men #Faults
When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness, its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation just that moment come into being.
-- Frieda Lawrence

#Blue #Essence #Feelings

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

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