Alice Duer Miller famous quotes

03-24-2025

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Education #Children #Mean
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Unexpected #Crisis #Charlotte
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Silence #Friendly #Passionate
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Doe #Littles #Affair
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ...
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Hate #Hands #May
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Believe #Equality
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Grateful #Chivalry #Form
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#People #Parent #Dull
the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Adaptability #Strongest
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Wish #England #World
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Baseball #Women #Emotional
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
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Mother #Wall #Children
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#People #Trying #Partnership
People love to talk but hate to listen. 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. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Wall #Hate #Mean
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Love #Fists
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.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Mean #Funny Friend #Men
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Army #Feelings #Good Man
People love to talk but hate to listen.
-- Alice Duer Miller

#Hate #People

You may also like:

Alexander Woollcott
Critic
Alice Meynell
Writer
Cary Grant
Film actor
Claudette Colbert
Actress
Dorothy Parker
Poet
Edna Ferber
Novelist
Franklin P. Adams
Columnist
George S. Kaufman
Playwright
Heywood Broun
Journalist
Irene Dunne
Film actress
James Thurber
Cartoonist
Jean Arthur
Film actress
Monty Woolley
Film actor
Moss Hart
Playwright
Myrna Loy
Film actress
Robert Benchley
Humorist
Robert E. Sherwood
Playwright
William Powell
Actor
Harold Ross
Journalist
Helen Westley
Character actress