No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live. — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“I sha'n't mind it a bit, Ben," she said, "and for a good reason—because I'm terribly conceited." He did not understand at all, and she went on: "I believe I shall be just as much of a person—perhaps more—without money. The women who really mind being poor are the humble-minded ones, who think that they are made by their clothes… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“He was scolding me," replied Mr. Cord. "Have you noticed, Crystal, what a lot of scolding is going on in the world at present? I believe that that is why no one is getting any work done—everyone is so busy scolding everybody else. The politicians are scolding, and the newspapers are scolding, and most of the fellows I know are… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . . — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know anything," said Klein. "That's his trouble. He's clever, but he doesn't know much. I guess he only began to read books… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
