Author: Alice James

Quotes

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

- Alice James

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- Alice James

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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