Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members. — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is only now.… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
