Florence L. Barclay Quotes

#1. The worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

Florence L. Barclay

#2. The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

Florence L. Barclay

#3. We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!

Florence L. Barclay

#4. To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.

Florence L. Barclay

#5. She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Florence L. Barclay

#6. I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.

Florence L. Barclay