Gertrude Atherton - Time Quotes

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In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

Gertrude Atherton

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

Gertrude Atherton

The world is equally astonished—and resentful—at every new discovery, but in a short time accepts it as a commonplace. The layman resents all new ideas, but the adjustment of the human mind to the inevitable is common even among savages.

Gertrude Atherton

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

Gertrude Atherton

An ardent feminist, he believed in women taking precisely the same liberties with orthodoxies as men had done since the beginning of time.

Gertrude Atherton