Kate Langley Bosher Quotes

United States, Novelist
February 1, 1865 – July, 27, 1932.

Kate Langley Bosher was an American novelist from Virginia, best known for her novels Mary Cary (1910) and Miss Gibbie Gault (1911). She was also a suffragist and founding member and officer of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.

Also known as Suffragist

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

Kate Langley Bosher
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

Kate Langley Bosher
- Believe
- Moments
- Humans

... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Place
- Another
- Otherwise
Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Fool
- Shows
- Speech
All men are no more alike than all women, only aliker.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Women
- More
As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Opinion
- Forget
- Pleasant
There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Nothing
- Praise
- Much
People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.

Kate Langley Bosher
- People
- Nothing
- Opposed

When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Together
- Enough
- Knows
A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

Kate Langley Bosher
- Succeed
- Would
- According