Metaphors are as tactful as they are informative, for if you know nothing at all about the subject, you are not offended or rebuked, because they offer your eye an agreeable still life, valuable for itself. Metaphors are the diplomats of rhetoric; they lead you urbanely to the brink, but it is you who states some unique conclusion to your own discovering self.


Miss Boo Is Sixteen (1957)

Margaret Lee Runbeck Quotes

Metaphors are as tactful as they are informative, for if you know nothing at all about the subject, you are not offended or rebuked, because they...

Metaphors are as tactful as they are informative, for if you know nothing at all about the subject, you are not offended or rebuked, because they...

Metaphors are as tactful as they are informative, for if you know nothing at all about the subject, you are not offended or rebuked, because they...

Metaphors are as tactful as they are informative, for if you know nothing at all about the subject, you are not offended or rebuked, because they...