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Letter "A" » Alice James Quotes
«Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul»
«The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape»
«How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.»
«It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.»
«It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!»
Author: Alice James
«I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.»
Author: Alice James
«Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.»
Author: Alice James
«You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.»
Author: Alice James
«One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.»
Author: Alice James
«I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am»
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