When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Art Copy Share Image
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Claims Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Amenities Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould America Copy Share Image
There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Drinking Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Comfort Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Culture Copy Share Image
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Adjectives Copy Share Image
Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Certain Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Children Copy Share Image
... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Answers Copy Share Image
You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Achieve Copy Share Image
It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould All things Copy Share Image
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Democracy Copy Share Image
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image
Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Admitting Copy Share Image
The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Glory Copy Share Image
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Angry Copy Share Image
Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Conviction Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Asparagus Copy Share Image
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Cases Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Believe Copy Share Image