Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

Democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

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

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude ...

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

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

Men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face ...

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

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

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

If you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

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

If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.