Great saying by great authors Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould