What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last si…

- Geraldine Jewsbury

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

- Geraldine Jewsbury

But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one kee…

- Geraldine Jewsbury

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

- Geraldine Jewsbury

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

- Geraldine Jewsbury

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

- Geraldine Jewsbury

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we exp…

- Geraldine Jewsbury

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

- Geraldine Jewsbury

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

- Geraldine Jewsbury