Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Mary Webb (English Novelist)

Mary Webb (1881–1927) was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew. Her novels have been successfully dramatized, most notably the film Gone to Earth in 1950 by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They inspired the famous parody Cold Comfort Farm.

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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion – far less by the white fire of love.
Mary Webb
Topics: Marriage

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary Webb
Topics: Ideals, Idealism

We are tomorrow’s past.
Mary Webb
Topics: Change

The divine egoism hat is genius.
Mary Webb
Topics: Genius

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary Webb
Topics: Kindness

Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
Mary Webb
Topics: Nature

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.
Mary Webb
Topics: The Past, Past

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