Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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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. For the simple life demands virtually that there shall be no specialization.

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

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

Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

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

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

Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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
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
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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

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

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

Katharine Fullerton Gerould