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 of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately… — Margery Wilson Copy Share
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 a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men… — Margery Wilson Copy Share
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
