The Princess and the Goblin Quotes

“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:fearenemy

“if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:understandingjustice

“Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:beliefsight

“People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:belief

“Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:eyes

“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

topic:wrong