51 Quotes by Ilka Chase

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ...

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.