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Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.




Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.




Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies."

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.




Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth."

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism."

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 Quotes: "Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "You can bear anything if it is not your fault."

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires."

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 Quotes: "Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings."

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 Quotes: "The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again."

The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not."

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it."

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season."

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit."

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth."

Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary."

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical."

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people."

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal."

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code."

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin."

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals."

The very notion of tabu is one of the rightest notions in the world. Better any old tabu than none, for a man cannot be said to be"on the side of the stars" at all, unless he makes refusals.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give."

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love."

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often."

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically."

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies."

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face."

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?"

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp."

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement."

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.



Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes: "When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense."

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.