41 Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

The indiscreet questioner – and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man’s duty either to the community or to any individual to answer – is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude...

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.