Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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• 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.

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  Real, Simple, Life Is

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Inspirational Life, Simplicity, Taste

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

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  Clever, Powerful, Long

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

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  Pregnancy, Intuition, Mastery

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Sex, Men, Thinking

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

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  Tests, Aliens, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

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  Hate, Lying, People

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

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  Truth, Men, Giving

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

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  Inquiry, Moral, Burglary

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.

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  Mean, Men, Community

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Next, Language, Individual

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Majority, Admitting, Minorities

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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.

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  Lying, Faces, Sometimes

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• 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.

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  Oil, Lamps, Phrases

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• ... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

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  Sleep, Doe, Guarantees

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Lying, Claims, Method

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• The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

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  New Year, Fashion, Years

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• I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

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  Vocabulary, Culture, Pity

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.

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  Children, School, Sleep

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• Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

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  Marriage, Girl, Falling In Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

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  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

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  Stupid, Pride, Would Be

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• ... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.

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  Believe, Thinking, Progress

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• Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

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  Nice, Simple, Men

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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

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  Lying, People, Adjectives

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