117 Quotes by Marya Mannes

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

One is as one is, and the love that can’t encompass both is a poor sort of love.

It’s never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

I don’t think it’s possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

It is television’s primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a “clean bomb” yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have – more than any other modern society – avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and – above all – in worth.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.