Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
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Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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Success is a great healer.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
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A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
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The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
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Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
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... France is the genius among nations.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
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There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.