Quote

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Gertrude Atherton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
World
Artists
Theater
Dead
Tormenting
Artist
Playwrights
Spirit
Inhibit
Together
Playwright
Firsts
Ghosts
First
Ghost

More quotes by Gertrude Atherton

Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
the only revenge worth having is success.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
Gertrude Atherton
Image
It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
Gertrude Atherton