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 Quotes
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Similar Quotes
Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
- Sir Pelham WarnerAdvertising is selling Twinkies to adults.
- Donald R. VanceThe struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompt...
- Herb GoldbergEach generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the ...
- Francis SchaefferEach had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had don...
- Ernst TollerComments on: "Alice Duer Miller Quotes: Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own..."
| 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.
Share with your friends