15 Quotes by Ernest Vincent Wright

If you want to hold a crowd, just mystify it.

A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should,—in fact,—it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always stay in that condition known as "status quo"; and grow up, antagonistic to all surroundings.

What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don’t alwaysmatch up.

A man should so carry on his daily affairs as to bring no word of admonition from anybody; for a man’s doings should put a stain upon no soul but his own.

Affairs which look small or absurd to a full-grown man may loom up as big as amountain to a child; and you shouldn't allow a fact that you saw a thing ‘so much that I am sick of it,’ to turn you away from an inquiring child. You wasn't sick of it, on that far-past day on which you first saw it.

Though it was long thought that woman’s brain was minor in comparison with man’s, woman, as a class, now-a-day shows an all-round activity; and has brought staid control to official actions which had had a long run through domination by man; – that proud, cocky, strutting animal who thinks that this gigantic world should hop, skip and jump at his commands.