Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes

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. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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

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

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