Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Men, Women, Burden, Falsehood)
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Originality)
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Concern, May)
"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
(Related: Experience, Morality, Thought, End, Instinct, Logic, Salvation)
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Work, Ignorance, Learning, Materialism, Suspicion)
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Time, Civilization)
"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Manners)
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Life, Mankind, Simplicity, Taste)
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: People, Care, Legislation, Will)
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Privacy)