As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake. — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas than the… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral,… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living -… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. — Ann Bridge Copy Share
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values. — Ann Bridge Copy Share
“Lady Kilmichael, on the other hand, in common with many women of her generation, had made remarkably little use of her experience. It had… — Ann Bridge Copy Share
