Phyllis McGinley Quotes - Page 3

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• Time is the thief you cannot banish.

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  Thieves, Aging

  Phyllis McGinley, “Sunday Poetry: Ballade Of Lost Objects”

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• A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

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  Now And Then, Trash, Reader

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• Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

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  Girl, Curly Hair, Heaven

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

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  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

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  Avant Garde, Hard

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

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  Mother, Writing, Phones

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• The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

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  Summer, Winter, White

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

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  Mom, Daughter, Cost

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• Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.

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  Heart, Glasses, Today

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• There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

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  Book, Maturity, Adults

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

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  Real, Sides, Nonsense

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

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  Boys, Men, Knives

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• For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

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  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

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  Stars, Men, Gaza Strip

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• Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

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  Curly Hair, Hair, Spares

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• Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

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  Aunt, Littles, Shy

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• Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.

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  Loss, Night, Important

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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  Race, Gossip, Scandal

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• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

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  Women, Memorable, Important

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

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  Mirrors, Hair, Trying

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• Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

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  Lying, Baths, Shunning

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• If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

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  Confusion, Childhood, States

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

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  New York, Archer, Love Is

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• Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

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  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

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  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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