Top 15 Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
#1. 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.
#2. One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
#3. Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
#4. Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
#5. All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
#6. Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
#7. The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
#8. It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
#9. Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
#10. Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
#11. 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.
#12. Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
#13. Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
#14. Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
#15. No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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