43 Quotes by Margaret Millar

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

Shrews are made, not born.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.