41 Quotes by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

When did the word ‘temperament’ come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new – yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

There are only three things worthwhile – fighting, drinking, and making love.