Alice James Quotes (13 Quotes)


    What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting

    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.

    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.

    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.

    You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.


    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.

    The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

    What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

    Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

    Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

    I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

    I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

    I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.


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