Antrim Quotes & Sayings

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. — Minna Antrim

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. — Minna Antrim

One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all the little misunderstandings that inevitably occur between people, leading them, year in and year out, toward the same tired conclusions: conversation falters; friendships fail. — Donald Antrim

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. — Minna Antrim

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. — Minna Antrim

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. — Minna Antrim

Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart. — Minna Antrim

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping. — Minna Antrim

Smiles are the soul's kisses. — Minna Antrim

The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. — Minna Antrim

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. — Minna Antrim

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. — Minna Antrim

The problems in describing a person are essentially problems of knowing a person. — Donald Antrim

There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to. — Donald Antrim

I wouldn't say so. I've told people I'm a medieval historian when asked what I do. It freezes conversation. If one tells them one's a poet, one gets these odd looks which seem to say, "Well, what's he living off?" In the old days a man was proud to have in his passport, Occupation: Gentleman. Lord Antrim's passport simply said, Occupation: Peer - which I felt was correct. I've had a lucky life. I had a happy home, and my parents provided me with a good education. And my father was both a physician and a scholar, so I never got the idea that art and science were opposing cultures - both were entertained equally in my home. I cannot complain. I've never had to do anything I really disliked. Certainly I've had to do various jobs I would not have taken on if I'd had the money; but I've always considered myself a worker, not a laborer. So many people have jobs they don't like at all. I haven't, and I'm grateful for that. — W. H. Auden

To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius. — Minna Antrim

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. — Minna Antrim

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. — Minna Antrim

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won't undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk. — Donald Antrim

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled. — Donald Antrim

Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men. — Minna Antrim

In honor of October, really just hours away now ...
Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair. — Minna Thomas Antrim

Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of the country: in the Southland, the past is not really past, and the ancestral homelands are not so far away as they are elsewhere, paradoxically: the assimilation of Southerners, unlike the uneasy attempts at assimilation of Americans elsewhere, has created a culture in which the old influences in our blood, of the Ivory Coast, Languedoc, the Highlands, Wales, Antrim, and Devon, of Sephardic communities from Amsterdam to Cadiz, of the Caribbean sugar islands and Castile, have been absorbed into the fabric of New World life. — Markham Shaw Pyle

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend. — Minna Antrim

...my insides were ulcerous from coffee and terror. — Donald Antrim

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. — Minna Antrim

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book. — Myla Goldberg

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions. — Minna Antrim

To money, the finest linguist in the world! — Minna Antrim

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations. — Donald Antrim

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. — Minna Antrim

It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. — Donald Antrim

Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong. — Minna Antrim

I left the house at around midnight and crept up the driveway to the road. I wore canvas sneakers, athletic socks, safari shorts, a tee-shirt, and had the bright purple knapsack containing Jim's cold, hard foot, a garden trowel, a box of candles and matches to light them, a library copy of The Egyptian Book of the Dead, and some fig bars for a snack. — Donald Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. — Minna Antrim

Have you ever noticed?
people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters. — Donald Antrim

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial. — Donald Antrim

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race. — Donald Antrim

Let him hurl these pieces of toast like new and radical ideas that must be cast into the world. Pieces of toast like angry children who will hit us and upset us and change our ways of thinking and feeling. — Donald Antrim

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will. — Minna Antrim

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. — Minna Antrim

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. — Minna Antrim

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. — Minna Antrim

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. — Minna Antrim

We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake
Pancakes! Pancakes!
that we never learn to respect. — Donald Antrim

The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you? — Donald Antrim

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. — Minna Thomas Antrim

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. — Minna Antrim

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman. — Minna Antrim