Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Katharine Fullerton Gerould More Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould More Quotes From Katharine Fullerton Gerould There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. Katharine Fullerton Gerould mastery intuition pregnancy The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. Katharine Fullerton Gerould real simple life-is Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. Katharine Fullerton Gerould simplicity inspirational-life taste No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do. Katharine Fullerton Gerould powerful clever long men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it. Katharine Fullerton Gerould men sex thinking Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. Katharine Fullerton Gerould receiving people compliment I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative. Katharine Fullerton Gerould socialist vegetarianism answers When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. Katharine Fullerton Gerould temperament fashion artist Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. Katharine Fullerton Gerould giving men believe The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind. Katharine Fullerton Gerould kind mistake believe The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. Katharine Fullerton Gerould aristocracy wealth america Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it. Katharine Fullerton Gerould individual-freedom dare individual Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. Katharine Fullerton Gerould despise truth people No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires. Katharine Fullerton Gerould fats purses fashion Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. Katharine Fullerton Gerould marry-me social may Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. Katharine Fullerton Gerould nasty taste civilization ... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is. Katharine Fullerton Gerould car desire america Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. Katharine Fullerton Gerould fine stupid men All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing. Katharine Fullerton Gerould aquariums privacy essentials You can bear anything if it is not your fault. Katharine Fullerton Gerould faults guilt bears
