Famous Quotes by Marya Mannes

Below are famous quotes by Marya Mannes - .

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

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