Sara Jeannette Duncan Quotes

#1. When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#2. It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#3. We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#4. Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#5. Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#6. Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#7. Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#8. If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#9. I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#10. When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

Sara Jeannette Duncan