Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Harris

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Jean Struven Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. The case is featured on the TV show Murder Made Me Famous.

Author | April 27, 1923 - December 23, 2012

Source: Wikipedia

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

Jean Harris

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

Jean Harris

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

Jean Harris

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Jean Harris

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

Jean Harris