Quotes by : Olive Schreiner

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully....

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding....

There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.....

[O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring....

There is nothing ridiculous in love.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those....

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.