Adversity Quote by Alice James

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

— Alice James

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

— Alice James

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the…

— Alice James

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able…

— Alice James

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

— Alice James

“The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose…

— Alice James

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer…

— Alice James

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four…

— Alice James

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children,…

— Alice James

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

— Alice James

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble…

— Alice James

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

— Alice James