33 Quotes by Alice Duer Miller

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .