Ilka Chase Quotes - Page 2

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.