Ethel Smyth Quotes

The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

Ethel Smyth

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• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Air
  • Daily
  • Civilization

• A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Civilization
  • Possible

• It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • Society
  • Civilization

• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Cooking
  • Civilization

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
  • Test

• Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • America
  • California

• The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Society
  • Action
  • Purpose

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• ... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Matter
  • Civilization
  • Civilized

• One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Women
  • Country
  • Political

• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• I think women can save civilization.

  

  Emily Murphy
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Woman

• The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

  

  James Cook
  • Civilization
  • Citizens
  • Decline

• More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Progress
  • Charity

• There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Government
  • Creation

• I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fate
  • I Believe
  • Civilization

• I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Better
  • Athlete

• Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

  

  Plutarch
  • Soul
  • Disoders
  • Confesses

• A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Civilization
  • Charms
  • Conveniences