All Mary McCarthy Quotes
- Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Abroad
- I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you… Continues
- The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof Abroad
- The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun… Begun
- For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. Authority
- The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… American
- The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing… Appears
- The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout… All
- Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. Advice
- I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. Austen
- The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of… Any
- For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend,… Deposits
- It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… Accepted
- I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my… Act
- The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things… Action
- Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with… Congress
- With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely. Been
- The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,… Attracts
- Anybody who has ever tried to rectify an injustice or set a record straight comes to feel that he is going mad. Anybody
- Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… Acrostics
- All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed… Advanced
- It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… Bombs
- America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future.… America
- Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed. Car
- If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… Bad