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Susanna Moodie Quotes

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.

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
Encouraging, Dark, Clouds
Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

Susanna Moodie
Country, Native American, Men
Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Susanna Moodie
Eye, People, Political
Susanna Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie (1968). “The Victoria magazine, 1847-1848”

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
Husband, Lying, Mistress
Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Susanna Moodie
Home, Chickens, Curse
Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Susanna Moodie
Change

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

Susanna Moodie
Memories, Evil, Faithful
Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Susanna Moodie
Liars, Lying, Pride
Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.76, London : R. Bentley

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
Children, Party, Character
Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

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