Ann Petry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
-- Ann Petry

#Men #Shoes #Virtue
Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.
-- Ann Petry

#Music #Pain #Hate
If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.
-- Ann Petry

#Sweet #Morning #Spring
all truly great art is propaganda ...
-- Ann Petry

#Art #Propaganda #Great Art
Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.
-- Ann Petry

#Men #Virginia #Jewels
All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
-- Ann Petry

#Life #Circles
Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.
-- Ann Petry

#Survival #Resilience #Way
Sometimes I look at my own movies
-- Ann Petry

#Looks #Sometimes #My Own

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
When you're pregnant you just want to be comfortable - but I wear more or less the same as I do when I'm not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I'll want the floaty dresses!
Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Ann Petry famous quotes

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