Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

… if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

Doe

Littles

Sleep

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

Asparagus

Book

Dollars

… it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity … it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Great Men

Mistake

Simplicity

… the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

America

Car

Desire

… there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.

Believe

Progress

Thinking

… 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?

Believe

Book

Sex

[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.

Doors

Giving

Philosophy

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Aquariums

Essentials

Privacy

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Civilization

Nasty

Taste

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

Aliens

Kind

Tests

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Civilization

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College

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Culture

Dare

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Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

… it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity … it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

… the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

[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.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

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

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