1.
People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.
Alice Duer Miller
2.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
Alice Duer Miller
3.
In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.
Alice Duer Miller
4.
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world
Alice Duer Miller
5.
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
Alice Duer Miller
6.
It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Alice Duer Miller
7.
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
8.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.
Alice Duer Miller
9.
People love to talk but hate to listen.
Alice Duer Miller
10.
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
Alice Duer Miller
11.
No one really believes in equality who's on top.
Alice Duer Miller
12.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
Alice Duer Miller
13.
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
Alice Duer Miller
14.
the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.
Alice Duer Miller
15.
No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.
Alice Duer Miller
16.
And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
17.
They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind them now and then
That other countries breed other men.
Alice Duer Miller
18.
Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
Alice Duer Miller
19.
It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.
Alice Duer Miller
20.
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Alice Duer Miller
21.
Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action.
Alice Duer Miller
22.
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
Alice Duer Miller