Quotes By Alice James
Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
Alice James
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
Alice James
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Alice James