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Top 25 Miles Franklin Quotes (2025 Update)

Miles Franklin Quote: “It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it...”

1. “It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it...”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”

2. “Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.”

3. “Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”

4. “All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Heed the spark or you may dread the fire...”

5. “Heed the spark or you may dread the fire...”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.”

6. “It’s a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does...”

7. “Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does...”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.”

8. “There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “To grow up in intimate association with nature – animal and vegetable – is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

9. “To grow up in intimate association with nature – animal and vegetable – is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “It ain’t what things actually are, it’s all they stand for.”

10. “It ain’t what things actually are, it’s all they stand for.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.”

11. “When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.”

12. “Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.”

13. “In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary – some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”

14. “Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary – some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “I don’t believe there is a God”, I said fiercely, “and if there is, He’s not the merciful being He’s always depicted, or He wouldn’t be always torturing me for His own amusement.”

15. “I don’t believe there is a God”, I said fiercely, “and if there is, He’s not the merciful being He’s always depicted, or He wouldn’t be always torturing me for His own amusement.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

16. “I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable...”

17. “Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable...”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!”

18. “Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “My mother is a good woman – a very good woman – and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

19. “My mother is a good woman – a very good woman – and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.”

20. “Before I was ten I became critical of the anthropomorphic God as interpreted in the churches. I did not warm to One thus revealed as the semblance of a bullying and mean old man who must have all his own way, be praised all the time and for attributes which were deplorable in us.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “A woman writer, except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their wives and mistresses as a marline to save themselves from the wear and tear of interruption.”

21. “A woman writer, except in rare instances, has no protection such as enjoyed by men who use their wives and mistresses as a marline to save themselves from the wear and tear of interruption.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Knitting is not enough.”

22. “Knitting is not enough.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.”

23. “Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.”

24. “What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.”

— Miles Franklin

Miles Franklin Quote: “It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

25. “It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

— Miles Franklin

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