Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Conviction Copy Share Image
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Burglary Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould America Copy Share Image
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Drinking Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Culture Copy Share Image
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Happiness Copy Share Image
For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Defilement Copy Share Image
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Democracy Copy Share Image
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Demand Copy Share Image
What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Men Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Children Copy Share Image
... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould America Copy Share Image
On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Giving Copy Share Image
... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Altruism Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Care Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Glory Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Code Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Faces Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Art Copy Share Image
if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Angry Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Affirmative Copy Share Image
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