Lillian Eichler Quotes

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Flattery, of a tactful sort, is sometimes useful in conversation. But too much flattery is like too much sugar: it sickens.

Lillian Eichler
Always at a dance, formal or informal, there are guests who do not dance.... But 'the guest who does not dance' is one of the unfortunate things the hostess has to put up with at every one of her dances.

Lillian Eichler
To follow slavishly every whim of the mode is to lose that poetry of dress that is so intrisincally a part of the fine personality.

Lillian Eichler
Divorce is as old as marriage. Since the very earliest times, men and women have lived together in the promise of love, have waited vainly for that promise to be fulfilled, and have separated when that promise was forgotten by one or the other — or by both.

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Your letter carries with it not only the message you want it to convey, but another very definite message about yourself.

Lillian Eichler
Courtesy, like a boomerang, will return to you who send it into the world.

Lillian Eichler
It is a fundamental law of nature that we shall play in proportion to the amount of work we do.

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To-day a gift is not a gift unless it is in good taste.

Lillian Eichler
Golfing has some strange charm from which there is no escaping once one has experienced it. To play golf and to learn its fascination, is to love it always and be unable to forsake it.... It is the kind of game that must be played enthusiastically and constantly...

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No one can become a good conversationalist without tact. It is the sensitive touch that recognizes when a subject has become distasteful, which sees the eagerness of someone else to say something, which notes the slightest cloud of expression crossing another's face.

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Thoughts of sorrow, of gladness, of joy, of hope surge through us and cry for expression. Dancing is nature's way of expressing these emotions.

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Across the ages comes a whisper: 'We are all one!'

Lillian Eichler