Ann Bridge

“A conviction, unformulated but strong, rose to the working level of her mind - that painting did something more important for Nicholas…

— Ann Bridge

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in…

— Ann Bridge

Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people…

— Ann Bridge

In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough…

— Ann Bridge

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

— Ann Bridge

do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things…

— Ann Bridge

the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was…

— Ann Bridge

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of…

— Ann Bridge

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves 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…

— 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…

— Ann Bridge

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on…

— Ann Bridge

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

— Ann Bridge

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

— Ann Bridge

“Lady Kilmichael, on the other hand, in common with many women of her generation, had made remarkably little use of her experience.…

— Ann Bridge

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same…

— Ann Bridge

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or…

— Ann Bridge

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh…

— Ann Bridge