Top 83 Millicent Quotes
#1. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#2. A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
[Letter to the Millicent (Rogers) Library, February 22, 1894]
Mark Twain
#3. Forgive? It's not easy, Millicent. But I must forgive. Even if he never say he sorry. I do my part. Leave Boone's part to God. That not for me to control. So, not for me to worry about.
Julie Cantrell
#4. Hugo?' 'Millicent?' 'Is that you?' 'Yes. Is that you?' 'Yes.' Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. It doesn't pay the bills. And if I'm not going to do what my mother and Millicent want, I better be able to pay my own way. Because it's just a matter of time before they cut me off financially.
April White
#7. After all, golf is only a game,' said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they're saying.
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
Iris Apfel
#9. What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.
Millicent Fawcett
#10. One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
Millicent Fenwick
#12. A friend walks in when everyone else walks out. Source Unknown
Millicent Perry
#13. I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.
Millicent Fawcett
#14. The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
Millicent Fenwick
#15. No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.
Millicent Fawcett
#16. It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
Millicent Fawcett
#17. I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.
Millicent Fawcett
#18. In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests ... What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?
Millicent Fenwick
#19. I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.
Millicent Ashby
#20. Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
Millicent Fenwick
#21. People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK.
Millicent Ashby
#22. If there's one thing I've learned, it is to never give up
no matter what your circumstances are. Giving up doesn't solve anything.
Millicent Ashby
#23. A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
Millicent Fenwick
#24. Go ahead, make me mad, I'll just use you in one of my books.
Millicent Ashby
#25. Both of you know that one of you will get hurt if you keep this up."
"I can't stay away from her," I said, curling my fist.
Millicent Ashby
#26. The man went to the controls, looking up at me, flaring his nostrils to my actions. His voice was like a voice under water. "We'll see what becomes of your rebellious nature when you lose your memories, Rei Lin." He punched a few buttons and turned the knob on the wall to the right.
Millicent Ashby
#27. There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.
Millicent Fenwick
#28. Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Millicent Fenwick
#29. Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.
Millicent Martin
#30. Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
Millicent Fenwick
#31. Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
Millicent Fenwick
#32. The secret of being a successful writer is
write. Every writer deserves that chance.
Millicent Ashby
#33. I covered my eyes with my hand. Please don't let it be what I think it is. "It isn't babysitting again, is it?" I asked in a squeaky voice. Oh dear, please don't let him hear what I'd said.
Millicent Ashby
#34. Capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.
Millicent Fawcett
#35. Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
Millicent Fenwick
#36. You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.
Millicent Fenwick
#37. You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
Millicent Fenwick
#39. If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
#40. However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
#41. Get up," I tell myself, "You go and make your dreams a reality. There's no use staying home and whine every time life beats you down. There's a meadow in the deep forest; you just have to keep pushing through.
Millicent Ashby
#42. I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
Millicent Fenwick
#43. Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.
Millicent Fenwick
#44. He had hardly ever allowed himself the things that really gave him pleasure. Tradition and obligation had tyrannized over all his hours.
Millicent Bell
#45. A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.
Millicent Fawcett
#47. Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
Millicent Fawcett
#48. If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.
Millicent Fenwick
#49. There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
#50. Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative where other writers will.
Millicent Ashby
#51. Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
Millicent Fawcett
#52. The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
Millicent Fenwick
#53. A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
Millicent Fawcett
#54. Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
E. Millicent Sowerby
#55. The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett
#56. Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
Millicent Fawcett
#57. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
Millicent Ashby
#60. There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.
Millicent Ashby
#61. Good job," Alyx snapped. "You're very intelligent, Raye. You almost hit mom's car.
Millicent Ashby
#62. Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
#63. You're the one they're looking for," he said, with a curled lip. "You're the Glass Serpent.
Millicent Ashby
#64. I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.
Millicent Martin
#66. The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be
and that's so tempting.
Millicent Fenwick
#67. What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
Millicent Fawcett
#68. The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.
Millicent Carey McIntosh
#69. There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
Millicent Fawcett
#70. I will always love being a writer. There is nothing greater than that.
Millicent Ashby
#71. Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.
Millicent Fawcett
#72. In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.
Millicent Fenwick
#73. Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
Millicent Fenwick
#74. Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise.
Millicent Ashby
#75. What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
Millicent Fawcett
#76. Women were a whole other species when it came to understanding them.
Millicent Ashby
#77. You're better off not knowing the truth. You're just as much of a monster as I am.
Millicent Nankivell
#79. There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Fawcett
#80. The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
Millicent Fawcett
#82. Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.
Millicent Fenwick
#83. If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Millicent Fawcett
