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Francis Alexander Durivage Quotes

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

Francis Alexander Durivage
Death, Lying, Graves

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Humor, Ignorant, Enlightened
Francis Alexander Durivage (1856). “The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage: And Other Tales”, p.52

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Beautiful, Echoes, Devil

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Character, Blow, Jewels

The highest art is artlessness.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Art, Art Is, Highest

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Real, Light, Merit

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Writing, Starvation

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

Francis Alexander Durivage
Christian, Revenge, Fire

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