Top 91 Atherton Quotes
#2. William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
James Gray
#3. I was supposed to watch you, yeah. They thought it was weird that Atherton would send his own kid to Hecate, so we wanted to keep an eye on you. No pun intended. (Archer)
Rachel Hawkins
#4. Indeed, as my dear husband used to say, 'the apparel oft proclaims the man,'" Lady Atherton said.
Ah yes, wise words from the late Earl of Atherton, William Shakespeare.
Tarun Shanker
#5. Beware, Charlotte Atherton," Stone murmured as she disappeared around the corner of the barn. "I'm coming for you." A smile of anticipation stretched across his face. "And I always retrieve what I set out after.
Karen Witemeyer
#6. The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.
Sid Waddell
#7. If this valley is indeed cursed," Atherton continued, "there's the source. The Muslims named this set of ruins Mao Balegh, which means Cursed City.
James Rollins
#11. A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.
Gertrude Atherton
#12. There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton
#13. Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
Gertrude Atherton
#14. Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.
Nancy Atherton
#17. A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains ...
Gertrude Atherton
#18. The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude Atherton
#19. We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
Gertrude Atherton
#20. Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
#21. Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
Gertrude Atherton
#22. It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
Gertrude Atherton
#23. No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ...
Gertrude Atherton
#24. The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
Gertrude Atherton
#25. Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
Gertrude Atherton
#26. A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
Gertrude Atherton
#28. The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
#29. Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
Gertrude Atherton
#30. I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.
Gertrude Atherton
#31. No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
Gertrude Atherton
#32. New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.
Gertrude Atherton
#33. A woman without a past is like a fruitcake without brandy - insipid!
Nancy Atherton
#34. Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it."
"Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him?
"If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows.
Nancy Atherton
#36. Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
Gertrude Atherton
#37. Fairy tales, as Nell had said, are always complicated.
Nancy Atherton
#38. Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
Gertrude Atherton
#39. Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
Gertrude Atherton
#40. Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
Gertrude Atherton
#41. It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
#43. I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
Gertrude Atherton
#44. Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
Gertrude Atherton
#45. Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.
Michael Atherton
#46. The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions
Michael Atherton
#47. As the late earl said, 'The early bird catches birds of a like feather,'" she said.
I nodded, not even trying to understand how that would work. At the very least, the combination of proverbs made it somewhat original.
Tarun Shanker
#48. When I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
Gertrude Atherton
#49. The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
Gertrude Atherton
#50. The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?
Michael Atherton
#51. The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.
Gertrude Atherton
#53. Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
Gertrude Atherton
#54. Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.
Nancy Atherton
#55. It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
#56. Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
Gertrude Atherton
#58. It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money
John Atherton
#59. When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.
Nancy Atherton
#61. California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ...
Gertrude Atherton
#62. The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")
Gertrude Atherton
#63. There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton
#64. I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
Gertrude Atherton
#66. [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
Gertrude Atherton
#67. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Gertrude Atherton
#68. If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
Gertrude Atherton
#70. Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!
Gertrude Atherton
#71. They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that quiet courage is worth more than the grandest derring-do.
Nancy Atherton
#72. Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
Gertrude Atherton
#73. Clockwise is sunwise - as opposed to 'widdershins', which witches use.
J.S. Atherton
#74. Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
Gertrude Atherton
#75. The Handsome Prince Handbook is mute on the subject of chronic workaholism - Prince Charming, apparently, knew how to delegate - and I didn't know where else to turn for help. What do you do when life begins to go wrong and you've used up all three wishes?
Nancy Atherton
#77. It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
#78. The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
Gertrude Atherton
#79. The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton
#80. Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
Gertrude Atherton
#83. Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Gertrude Atherton
#84. I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.
William Atherton
#86. Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
#87. If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.
William Atherton
#88. To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
Gertrude Atherton
#89. All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
Gertrude Atherton
#90. The irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
Gertrude Atherton
#91. There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
Gertrude Atherton
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