Ilka Chase Quotes - Page 2

• I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

  Ilka Chase

  Rose, Tudors, Potatoes

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Hands, Names

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• Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

  Ilka Chase

  Political, Dry, Intellect

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• Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Naked, Taste

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

  Ilka Chase

  Heart, College, Prom

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• Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

  Ilka Chase

  Peas In A Pod, People, Trying

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

  Ilka Chase

  Sleep, Night, Clothes

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• Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

  Ilka Chase

  Distance, Attachment, May

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

  Ilka Chase

  Should Have, Attention, Masters

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

  Ilka Chase

  Doe, Statistics, Audience

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• I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

  Ilka Chase

  Book, Eye, Voice

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

  Ilka Chase

  Travel, Regret, You'll Regret It

  Ilka Chase (1969). “The varied airs of spring”, W.H. Allen

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• Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

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  Differences, Littles, Results

  Ilka Chase (1946). “I love Miss Tilli Bean”

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• It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

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  War, Machines, World

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

  Ilka Chase

  Photography, People, Thank God

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

  Ilka Chase

  Hands, Oil, Skulls

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