Top 11 Marion L. Starkey Quotes

Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.

Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.

If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?

Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.

People at large were not enjoying an intellectual awakening where so recently they had succumbed to superstitious panic.

Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.

A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.

Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.

At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.

As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.

It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.