I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood… — Ilka Chase Blood Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more… — Ilka Chase Amazement Copy Share Image
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all. — Ilka Chase College Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master… — Ilka Chase Attention Copy Share Image
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot… — Ilka Chase Girlhood Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Behave Copy Share Image
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and… — Ilka Chase Assembly Copy Share Image
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet… — Ilka Chase Another man Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who… — Ilka Chase Acting Copy Share Image
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. — Ilka Chase Audience Copy Share Image
You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours. — Ilka Chase Views Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an… — Ilka Chase Enormous Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Adjusting Copy Share Image
Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines. — Ilka Chase Looks Copy Share Image
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase Adventure Copy Share Image
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes. — Ilka Chase Builder Copy Share Image
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase Attachment Copy Share Image
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us… — Ilka Chase Creator Copy Share Image
Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate. — Ilka Chase Building Copy Share Image
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results. — Ilka Chase Differences Copy Share Image
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather. — Ilka Chase History Copy Share Image
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase Commonplace Copy Share Image
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but… — Ilka Chase Actors Copy Share Image
