Alice Duer Miller Quotes

• Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others

  Alice Duer Miller

  Tags in Techniques

• Democracy is this — to hold
  That all who wander down the pike
  In cart or car, on foot or bike,
  Or male or female, young or old,
  Are much alike — are much alike.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Diversity

• 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 unfit for government.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elections, Men

• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despised, Defense, Contempt, Against, Own, Feelings, Weak, Weapon

• Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in College, Democracy, Money

  Tags in Their, Because, Course, Your, Get, Hearts, Ever, Never, Freedom, Take, Broken, Know, Matter, Dare

• 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

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Hidden, Child | Circumstance, Concerned, Cough, Helps, Homework, Kindly, Inner, Than, Grasp, His, Wall, World, Fact, Same, Too, More, Feeling, Never, Well, Some, Cooks

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Sudden, Drops, Means, Whom, Woman, Out, Touch, Seen, Moment, Much, Never, Busy, Spare, Man

• If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slightest, Criticize, Your, Friends, Painful, Safe, Hold, Pleasure, Time, Tongue, Very, Take

Alice Duer Miller (8)

Birth:	28th July, 1874
Death:	22nd August, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet, Writer

About

Alice Duer Miller was an American writer and poet. Alice Duer was born in New York City. She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. She entered Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays. She and her sister Caroline King Duer published a joint book of poems. Alice graduated in June 1899. As a novelist, she scored her first real success with Come Out of the Kitchen in 1916. The story was made into a play and later the 1948 film Spring in Park Lane. In 1940, she wrote the verse novel The White Cliffs.

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