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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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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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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Lying, Faces, Sometimes

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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Hate, Lying, People

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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Next, Language, Individual

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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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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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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... 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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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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Children, School, Sleep

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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.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Vocabulary, Culture, Pity

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

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

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

People, Democracy, Guarantees

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Born: February 6, 1879
Died: July 27, 1944
Occupation: Writer
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