Top 15 Quotes by Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

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.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

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

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.