Asking Quote by Ann Bridge

“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

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

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

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

America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living -…

— Ann Bridge

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

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

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

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

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

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

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things…

— Ann Bridge