Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Inspirational Life, Simplicity, Taste

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Real, Simple, Life Is

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Pregnancy, Intuition, Mastery

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Tests, Aliens, Kind

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Originality, Unfamiliar, Amount

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Normal, Glory

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Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Nice, Simple, Men

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Fashion, Purses, Fats

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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Drinking, Fighting, Making Love

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Powerful, Clever, Long

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Sex, Men, Thinking

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I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Vocabulary, Culture, Pity

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Lying, Science, Fields

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When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

People, History, Unconventional

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Greek, Leopards, Bulls

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Philosophy, Doors, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Dog, Past, Lions

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Dresses, Sin, Conviction

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Men, Imagination, Whole

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1971). “Ringside Seats”

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For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Soul, Doubt, Flesh

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Truth, Men, Giving

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Book, Asparagus, Dollars

Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Lying, Claims, Method

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... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Sex, Believe, Book

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We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Children, School, Sleep

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Born: February 6, 1879
Died: July 27, 1944
Occupation: Writer
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