Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

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 is not time.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.