The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps… — Margery Wilson Death Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it -… — Margery Wilson Diplomats Copy Share Image
Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what… — Margery Wilson Air Copy Share Image
The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you. — Margery Wilson Accounts Copy Share Image
they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. — Margery Wilson Dinner Copy Share Image
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. — Margery Wilson Toys Copy Share Image
The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members. — Margery Wilson Hope Copy Share Image
If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence.… — Margery Wilson Charming Copy Share Image
Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is… — Margery Wilson Friendship Copy Share Image
any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime,… — Margery Wilson Agree Copy Share Image
Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and… — Margery Wilson Boomerang Copy Share Image
To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. — Margery Wilson Alive Copy Share Image
You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what… — Margery Wilson Infancy Copy Share Image
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People… — Margery Wilson Admire Copy Share Image
Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the… — Margery Wilson Bewildered Copy Share Image
Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. — Margery Wilson Conversation Copy Share Image
No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had… — Margery Wilson Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it. — Margery Wilson Dangerous Copy Share Image
Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position… — Margery Wilson Balls Copy Share Image
If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all… — Margery Wilson Commonwealth Copy Share Image
