Fullerton

Famous quotes containing the word fullerton:

    “At no time in history ... have the people who are not fit for society had such a glorious opportunity to pretend that society is not fit for them. Knowledge of the slums is at present a passport to society—so much the parlor philanthropists have achieved—and all they have to do is to prove that they know their subject. It is an odd qualification to have pitched on; but gentlemen and ladies are always credulous, especially if you tell them that they are not doing their duty.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    “The prince in disguise makes the most charming beggar in the world, no doubt; but that is because—as all fairy-tales from the beginning of time have taught us—the prince wears his rags as if they were purple. And, to do that, he not only must once have worn purple, but must never forget the purple that he has worn. And to the argument that all cannot wear purple, I can ... only reply that that seems to me to be no reason why all should wear rags.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    “... it is one thing to sow your wild oats in talk, and quite another to live by your own kaleidoscopic paradoxes.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)