51 Quotes by Ilka Chase

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.