Alice James Quotes
"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
- Alice James
(Related: Being, Respect, Selfishness)
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
- Alice James
(Related: Superiority, Reading, Sense)
"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
- Alice James
(Related: Nature, Emotions, Man, Needs, Woman)
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
- Alice James
(Related: Quantity, Value, Worth)
"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."
- Alice James
(Related: Success, Life, Lie, Failure, Luck, Posterity, Right)
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
- Alice James
(Related: Experience, Sense)
"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."
- Alice James
(Related: Education, Fool, Wonder)
"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
- Alice James
(Related: Compliments)
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
- Alice James
(Related: Experience, Sense)
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
- Alice James
(Related: Soul, Mind, Pain)