Phyllis McGinley
Author
1905-03-21
Quotes by Phyllis McGinley
-
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Read quote -
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Read quote -
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Read quote -
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Read quote -
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
Read quote -
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Read quote -
This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
Read quote -
What things are sure this side of paradise: Death, taxes, and the counsel of the bore. Though we outwit the tithe, make death our friend, Bores we have with us even to the end.
Read quote -
Love or perish we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as Mingle or be a failure.
Read quote -
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
Read quote -
The knowingness of little girls is hidden underneath their curls.
Read quote -
A girl (and perhaps the same thing applies to a boy) would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if she could feel that she had been sinful rather than a fool.
Read quote -
Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
Read quote -
Marriage was all a woman's idea, and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke it becomes us to be grateful.
Read quote -
Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.
Read quote -
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
Read quote -
O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
Read quote -
Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.
Read quote -
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
Read quote -
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
Read quote