the conqueror
A source page for quotes linked to Gertrude Atherton.
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Source: The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
Source: The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
Source: Black Oxen
Source: Black Oxen
“California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.”
Source: The Avalanche
“It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.”
“The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.”
“No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.”
“Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.”
Source: Senator North
“There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.”
“It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.”
“fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.”
Source: the conqueror
Source: the conqueror
“there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.”
“The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.”
“New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.”
“power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.”
“The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.”
“A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.”
Source: Black Oxen
Source: Black Oxen
Source: the conqueror
“All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.”
Source: The Californians