Ilka Chase Quotes
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Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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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.
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Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
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To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
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Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
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Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.
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There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.
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Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
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everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
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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.
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Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
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Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.
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We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
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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.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.
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when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.
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Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try
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That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.
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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.
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The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.
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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.
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Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.
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Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.
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The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
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Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
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