All Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes
- ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the… America
- There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic… Application
- Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. Amount
- Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. Altruism
- The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There… Drawback
- You can bear anything if it is not your fault. Bear
- Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a… Care
- Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Alien
- Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work… Both
- One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly… Been
- Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. Concern
- No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. Been
- Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be… Despise
- Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry… Angry
- I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer… Affirmative
- When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. Artist
- All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. All
- Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Acquired
- Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Accepting
- You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault. Bear
- If a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees yo… Amenities
- No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then… All
- ... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes. Kaleidoscopic
- ... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than… All
- We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buyMontessori outfits that were invented for… Afford