Grace Metalious famous quotes

03-24-2025

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.
-- Grace Metalious

#Children #Block #Hero
I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.
-- Grace Metalious

#Hands #Gentleness
Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.
-- Grace Metalious

#Rocks #Sound #Naked
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.
-- Grace Metalious

#Hate #Men #Easy
Indian summer is like a woman.
-- Grace Metalious

#Summer #Indian Summer
Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?
-- Grace Metalious

#Hate #People #Wish
I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself,
-- Grace Metalious

#Bottles #Saws #Empty
Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.
-- Grace Metalious

#Hurt #Watches #Alive
If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
-- Grace Metalious

#Hate #War #Men
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.
-- Grace Metalious

#Girlfriend #Sex #Glasses
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.
-- Grace Metalious

#People #Awful #Taste
There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.
-- Grace Metalious

#Men #Security

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