the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
