Elizabeth Fry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#May #Lord #Undone
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Children #Cells #Mind
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Growing Up #Endeavour #Should
I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Mind #Wish #May
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Revenge #Punishment #Criminals
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Truth #Confusion #Needs
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Flower #Looks #Gone
It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Honor #Sides
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Giving Up #Believe #Heart
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
-- Elizabeth Fry

#Mean #Heart #Insecure

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