Quotes by Margery Wilson

Margery Wilson

a diplomat … is not worthy of the name unless he can say ‘no’ and make the other person like it – or at least not be offended by it.

Diplomats

Names

Worthy

All life is a delusion of the senses.

Delusion

Life Is

Senses

any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn’t the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.

Humanity

Law

Used

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

Charm

Lying

Self

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it – while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

Games

Tennis

Trying

Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can’t hold after you get it.

Dangerous

Flirting

Shortcuts

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

Discipline

Self

Taken

If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people’s ideas. The subject is still open!

Ideas

Men

Thinking

Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.

Blessed

Careers

Humanity

No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

Could Have Been

Deep Within

Success

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Air

Alive

Blessed

Careers

Challenges

Charm

Clever

Could Have Been

Dangerous

Deep Within

Delusion

Diplomats

Discipline

Doe

Evidence

Flattery

Flirting

Games

Giving

Humanity

Ideas

Inward

Law

Life Is

Live In The Moment

Lunch

Lying

Memories

Men

Mind

Names

Often Is

People

Personal Qualities

Progress

Quality

Reality

Reason Why

Responsibility

Return

Self

Senses

Shortcuts

Success

Taken

Talking

Tea

Tennis

Thinking

Toys

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Quotes by Margery Wilson

Margery Wilson

a diplomat … is not worthy of the name unless he can say ‘no’ and make the other person like it – or at least not be offended by it.

All life is a delusion of the senses.

any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn’t the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it – while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can’t hold after you get it.

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.

No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

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