What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting - Alice James Quotes
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person! - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting Alice James
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul - Alice James Quotes

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul

Alice James

 Mind
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape - Alice James Quotes

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Alice James

 Life
How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. - Alice James Quotes

How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James

 
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. - Alice James Quotes

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James

 Vulgarity
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! - Alice James Quotes

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

Alice James

 
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. - Alice James Quotes

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

Alice James

 American Writer Compliments
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. - Alice James Quotes

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Alice James

 American Writer Value
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. - Alice James Quotes

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Alice James

 American Writer Emotions
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. - Alice James Quotes

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

 American Writer Experience
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am - Alice James Quotes

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am

Alice James

 Education
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