Gertrude Atherton Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Atherton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.