Ilka Chase Quotes
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.
When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
