Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerouldwas an American writer and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould quotes about
drawback life living positively
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.
acquired left
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
fine men possession
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
human mastery salvation social taking
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.
advance civilization merely nicer rejecting
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
irish-poet lies-and-lying science
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
irish-poet
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
created expressly ideal irish-poet lean purse thin
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.