Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Alice Duer Miller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Alice Duer Miller.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Alice Duer Miller was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II. She also wrote novels and screenplays.

American - Poet | July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942

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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Duer Miller

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

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Alice Duer Miller

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Alice Duer Miller

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

Alice Duer Miller

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

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

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

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Alice Duer Miller

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

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

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

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Alice Duer Miller

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Alice Duer Miller

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

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

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

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

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