Antrim Quotes

#1. Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

Myla Goldberg

#2. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Minna Antrim

#3. The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Minna Antrim

#4. It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

Minna Antrim

#5. We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Minna Antrim

#6. A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Minna Antrim

#7. The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

Donald Antrim

#8. Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

Minna Antrim

#9. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

Donald Antrim

#10. Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

Minna Antrim

#11. But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Donald Antrim

#12. Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Minna Antrim

#13. Smiles are the soul's kisses.

Minna Antrim

#14. The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

Minna Antrim

#15. Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

Minna Antrim

#16. A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Minna Antrim

#17. ...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror.

Donald Antrim

#18. One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail.

Donald Antrim

#19. Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Minna Antrim

#20. The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person.

Donald Antrim

#21. The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

#22. Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Minna Antrim

#23. To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

Minna Antrim

#24. To money, the finest linguist in the world!

Minna Antrim

#25. There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Minna Antrim

#26. There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.

Donald Antrim

#27. Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations.

Donald Antrim

#28. A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

#29. Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Minna Antrim

#30. Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.

Minna Antrim

#31. To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

Minna Antrim

#32. An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Minna Antrim

#33. To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

Minna Antrim

#34. Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.

Minna Antrim

#35. That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Minna Antrim

#36. The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Minna Antrim

#37. There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

Donald Antrim

#38. Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

Donald Antrim

#39. Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Donald Antrim

#40. Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling.

Donald Antrim

#41. Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Minna Antrim

#42. In honor of October, really just hours away now ...
Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.

Minna Thomas Antrim

#43. When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Minna Antrim

#44. To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Minna Antrim

#45. Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

Minna Thomas Antrim