Mary McCarthy Quotes

Mary McCarthy
American Author
Born: Jun 21, 1912
Died: Oct 25, 1989
Behavior Hero Man People Which You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. Mary McCarthy
People Fear Judgment Bad Always Children
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. Mary McCarthy
Become Despotism Rule No-One Bureaucracy Modern Form
In violence, we forget who we are. Mary McCarthy
Forget Who Violence
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. Mary McCarthy
Hero Will About Only Reader Curious Intensely Suspense Happen Who Novel Novelist
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. Mary McCarthy
Politics Military Honorable Considerations Seems Shameful Retreat Dictated Ethical Reasons Even Suggested
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process. Mary McCarthy
Life Naked State Completed Destroyed Finishes Consumed Never Most House Labor Begun Process Again Toil Moment Keeping
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Mary McCarthy
You Man Behavior Side Imitative Abroad Makes Human Being Human Behavior Ape Whole Conscious
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. Mary McCarthy
Cake Imagination Putting Am Real Imaginary
I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. Mary McCarthy
Me You Women Other Secrets About Given Feel Trade Women Are Afraid Inhibited Away Sufficiently Things
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. Mary McCarthy
Good Trust Liberty Gift Behavior Nothing State Bestowed About Individual Conceived Sort Opinion Current Good Behavior Inherent
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Mary McCarthy
Unfinished Negative Proof America Which Europe
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Mary McCarthy
Age Every Keyhole Eye Pasted Which
Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard. Mary McCarthy
Life Hazard American European Career

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