Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a clean bomb yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
Marya Mannes
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
Author
Journalist
Christian
Cheat
Speak
Bombs
Truth
Speaks
Firsts
Fellows
First
Clean
Make
Christianity
Perverts
Men
Public
Cheats
Faith
Bomb
More quotes by Marya Mannes
I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.
Marya Mannes
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
Marya Mannes
Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
Marya Mannes
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
Marya Mannes
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
Marya Mannes
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
Marya Mannes
In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
Marya Mannes
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
Marya Mannes
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
Marya Mannes
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
Marya Mannes
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
Marya Mannes
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
Marya Mannes
Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
Marya Mannes
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
Marya Mannes
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
Marya Mannes
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Marya Mannes
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
Marya Mannes
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
Marya Mannes
Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.
Marya Mannes
