List of Ilka Chase Quotes

I Suppose Anyone Who Has Ever Written A Travel Book Has Had The Experience Of Being Accosted By A Reader With Blood In His Eye And A Lawsuit In His Voice.

Prolonged Statistics Are A Lethal Dose, Which If It Does Not Kill Will Certainly Dispel Your Audience.

George Moore Unexpectedly Pinched My Behind. I Felt Rather Honored That My Behind Should Have Drawn The Attention Of The Great Master Of English Prose.

Art, We Are Told, Is A Criterion Of One's Taste. How Humiliating, Should Our Taste Turn Out To Be Bad. Rather As Though We Were Caught Stark Naked With A Poor Figure.

Next To A Good Meal And Possibly A Long Night's Sleep The Greatest Morale Builder ... Is Clothes.

Love At A Distance May Be Poignant; It Is Also Idealized. Contact, More Than Separation, Is The Test Of Attachment.

I've Got A Heart Like A College Prom. Each One I Dance With Seems The Best Of All.

Intellect Alone Is A Dry And Rattling Thing.

Young People Want To Look Like Peas In A Pod, And There Is No Use Trying To Make Them Different.

I Always Felt That The Boiled Potato, Not The Tudor Rose, Should Be The National Emblem.

Wart Hogs Should Sue For Libel. It Is A Terrible Name And They Are Fine Fellows And Devoted Family Men And It Is Rare To See One By Himself; The Little Woman And The Kiddies Are Usually Close At Hand.

That Is What Is So Marvelous About Europe; The People Long Ago Learned That Space And Beauty And Quiet Refuges In A Great City, Where Children May Play And Old People Sit In The Sun, Are Of Far More Value To The Inhabitants Than Real Estate Taxes And Contractors' Greed.