Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Inspirational Life, Simplicity, Taste

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

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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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Real, Simple, Life Is

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Pregnancy, Intuition, Mastery

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

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Tests, Aliens, Kind

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

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• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Originality, Unfamiliar, Amount

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

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Normal, Glory

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Inquiry, Moral, Burglary

  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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• 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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Nice, Simple, Men

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

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fashion, Purses, Fats

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Drinking, Fighting, Making Love

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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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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  Powerful, Clever, Long

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mean, Men, Community

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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Majority, Admitting, Minorities

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Oil, Lamps, Phrases

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

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

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  Men, Imagination, Whole

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1971). “Ringside Seats”

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• The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Stars, Men, World

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Lying, Claims, Method

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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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• ... 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, Littles, Doe

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

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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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