Quotes by Antrim, Minna

"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."

Antrim, Minna on enthusiasm   

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Antrim, Minna on experience
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"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

Antrim, Minna on flattery   

"Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty."

Antrim, Minna on greed   

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

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

Antrim, Minna on lies and lying
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"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

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

Antrim, Minna on aphorisms and epigrams
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"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him."

Antrim, Minna on women
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"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."

Antrim, Minna on pleasure   

"Man proposes, woman forecloses."

Antrim, Minna on seduction   

"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."

Antrim, Minna on virtue