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

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Soul, Doubt, Flesh

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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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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• Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dresses, Sin, Conviction

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

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• The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

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  Dog, Past, Lions

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

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• [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Philosophy, Doors, Giving

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

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• I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Greek, Leopards, Bulls

  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.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Truth, Men, Giving

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

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• Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.

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  Mean, Successful, Men

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• ... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mistake, Simplicity, Great Men

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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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• 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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