Grace Metalious Professions : Author Born : September 8, 1924 Died : February 25, 1964 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Grace Metalious The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. Grace Metalious block hero children Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest? Grace Metalious hate wish people I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand. Grace Metalious hand-in-hand ifs hands If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. Grace Metalious awful taste people Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots. Grace Metalious naked rocks sound How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies. Grace Metalious hate easy men Indian summer is like a woman. Grace Metalious indian-summer indian summer I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself. Grace Metalious empty saws bottles Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for. Grace Metalious alive hurt watches If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting. Grace Metalious hate men war Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. Grace Metalious girlfriend glasses sex There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth. Grace Metalious security ifs men Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
