Alice Duer Miller Quotes (18 Quotes)

Thus she would well repay
The debt, and I was grateful- the English made
Life hard for those who did not come to her aid.

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.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then; That other countries breed other men.

The innate tendency of men to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's place is the armory.

Is it the music of the spheres they hear?

Why, my dear girl, haven't you seen
What English country life can mean
With too small an income to keep the place
Going?

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

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

People love to talk but hate to listen. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

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

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.

Out of the dark, and dearth
Of happiness on earth,
Out of a world inured to death and pain;
On a fair spring mom
To me a son was born,
And hope was born-the future lived again.

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

And now too late, we see these things are one; The art is sacrifice and self-control; And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.