Gertrude Atherton

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

— Gertrude Atherton

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and…

— Gertrude Atherton

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed,…

— Gertrude Atherton

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

— Gertrude Atherton

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by…

— Gertrude Atherton

the best of all good friends is pride.

— Gertrude Atherton

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

— Gertrude Atherton

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

— Gertrude Atherton

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

— Gertrude Atherton

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

— Gertrude Atherton

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

— Gertrude Atherton

... France is the genius among nations.

— Gertrude Atherton

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

— Gertrude Atherton

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

— Gertrude Atherton

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

— Gertrude Atherton

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

— Gertrude Atherton

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I…

— Gertrude Atherton

I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as…

— Gertrude Atherton

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

— Gertrude Atherton

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

— Gertrude Atherton

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

— Gertrude Atherton

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she…

— Gertrude Atherton

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

— Gertrude Atherton

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one…

— Gertrude Atherton

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the…

— Gertrude Atherton