Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes

United States, Novelist
January 28, 1882 – March, 14, 1967.

Alice Tisdale Hobart born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Faith
- Create
- Exist
We've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Disease
- Services
- Expense

Nothing is so binding as pity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Pity
- Binding
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Democracy
- Nation
- Disease
What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Memory
- Sustain
- Fortify
Commerce unites; religion divides.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
- Love
- Freedom
- Away