Alice Duer Miller Quotes

• People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wall, Hate, Mean

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• It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Grateful, Chivalry, Form

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• the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Adaptability, Strongest, Know How

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• People love to talk but hate to listen.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Hate, People

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• Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

  Alice Duer Miller

  Baseball, Men, Emotional

  Alice Duer Miller (2016). “Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Baseball, Women, Emotional

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• No one really believes in equality who's on top.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Believe, Equality

  Alice Duer Miller (2016). “Manslaughter”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Mean, Talking, Listening

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• In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Wish, World, England

  'The White Cliffs' (1940) p. 70

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• Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Army, Feelings, Good Man

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• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Silence, Friendly, Passionate

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

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  Mother, Children, Wall

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• It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

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  Unexpected, Crisis, Charlotte

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• Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Love, Fists

  Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”

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• Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

  Alice Duer Miller

  People, Trying, Slave

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• Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Doe, Littles, Affair

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• No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

  Alice Duer Miller

  People, Parent, Causes

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• Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Hate, Hands, May

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• They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
  But they do think England is God almighty,
  And you must remind them now and then
  That other countries breed other men.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Alice Duer Miller (2013). “The White Cliffs”, Read Books Ltd

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• And now too late, we see these things are one:
  The art is sacrifice and self-control
  And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Art, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Alice Duer Miller, “An American To France”

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• When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Funny Friendship, Mean, Men

  Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”

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