Ilka Chase Quotes

• The only people who never fail are those who never try

  Ilka Chase

  Inspiración, Positivo, Fracaso

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• You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Views, Internet

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• Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

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  Government, Order, Democracy

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

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  Adventure, Delight, Anticipation

  Ilka Chase (1961). “The Carthaginian Rose”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

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  Atheism, Trying, Fool

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

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  Religioso, Ateo, Hombres

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• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

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  Weather, Snow, Might

  Ilka Chase (1969). “The varied airs of spring”, W.H. Allen

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• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

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  Inspirational, Men, America

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• Creo que es deber de toda mujer hacerse tan atractiva como su tiempo y sus medios se lo permitan. Después de todo, ahí está usted, en su persona, un símbolo viviente del progreso del arte, la ciencia y la imaginación. Ser tan atractivas como podamos es casi un deber cívico; hay tantas cosas tristes y feas en el mundo que creo que las mujeres deberían decirse a sí mismas humildemente, no con vanidad: 'Intentaré ser tan guapa como pueda, para que cuando la gente me mire, se sienta refrescada. Me esforzaré por ser agradable a la vista".

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

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  Hombres, Pensar, Hablar

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• En el amor, la galantería es necesaria. Incluso cuando el primer deseo salvaje desaparece, sobre todo entonces, hay una necesidad inherente de buenos modales y consideración, de esforzarse. Dos seres humanos corteses y civilizados, desde la soledad de sus almas, se deben eso el uno al otro.

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  Loneliness, Two, Effort

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• Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

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  Believe, Moving, Tears

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

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  Mother, Baby, Bores You

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• People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

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  Stress, Ignorance, People

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• The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

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  Marriage, Endurance, Facts

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• El teatro es un negocio desconcertante y un despilfarro escandaloso si se tiene en cuenta que personas que han demostrado su valía, que han actuado o han sido responsables de obras de éxito, que han ofrecido representaciones sobresalientes, pueden verse obligadas, en plena efervescencia de su energía, a permanecer inactivas temporada tras temporada por falta de oportunidades, y su entusiasmo, su moral y su propio talento se reducen a una muerte lenta y gris. Ni siquiera hablaremos de finanzas; es una historia demasiado triste.

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  Successful, Opportunity, Play

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

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  Real, Love You, Men

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• everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

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  Passing Away, Experience, Humans

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• We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

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  Sex, Hypocrisy, Conventions

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• All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

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  Heartbreaking, Youth, Realizing

  Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

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• Algunos objetos y acontecimientos pueden fotografiarse, otros, si se quiere reproducir su verdadera calidad, deben pintarse o musicarse, ya que su esencia se reproduce más fielmente a través de la imaginación que mediante el reportaje periodístico.

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  Photography, Essence, Imagination

  Ilka Chase (1951). “New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River”

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• There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

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  Country, Two, Russia

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• Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

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  Travel, House, Cost

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• Los cerdos verrugosos deberían demandar por difamación. Es un nombre terrible y son buenos tipos y devotos hombres de familia y es raro ver a uno solo; la mujercita y los niños suelen estar cerca.

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  Men, Hands, Names

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• That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

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  Children, Real, Long Ago

  Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”

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