Adela Rogers St. Johns famous quotes

03-25-2025

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Happiness #Light #Joy
A great many of us have confused change with progress.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Confused #Progress #Great Men
Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Husband #Father #Men
I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Death #Thinking #Self
The motion picture is the people's Art.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Movie #Art #People
Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Light #Joy #And Love
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Women #Men #Made
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Husband #Thinking #Advice
Death is a door life opens.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Grief #Doors
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Thinking #Feminism #Modern
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Truth #Men #Shining
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns

#Friendship #Marriage #Husband

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