ALICE DUER MILLER

People love to talk but hate to listen.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.