Best Quotes by Phyllis McGinley (Top 10)

  1. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
  2. Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
  3. A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
  4. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
  5. Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
  6. A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
  7. To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
  8. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past
  9. The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
  10. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

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