a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at least not be offended by it. Margery Wilson More Quotes by Margery Wilson More Quotes From Margery Wilson The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members. Margery Wilson personal-qualities quality lying So few people can think and talk at the same time. Margery Wilson talking people thinking If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth. Margery Wilson discipline taken self they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner. Margery Wilson lunch tea people Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. Margery Wilson women toys years People make life. The more people, the more life. Margery Wilson people People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People adore the one who encourages them to display their conversational wares and admires the display. Margery Wilson clever giving people The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others. Margery Wilson inward self mind To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. Margery Wilson evidence alive world any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used. Margery Wilson used humanity law Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself. Margery Wilson return trying thinking No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised. Margery Wilson deep-within could-have-been success All life is a delusion of the senses. Margery Wilson delusion senses life-is The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you. Margery Wilson progress often-is challenges Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self. Margery Wilson charm self lying Probably one of the reasons why gushing is so unattractive is that it leaves nothing for the listener to do. Margery Wilson flattery unattractive reason-why Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit. Margery Wilson tennis games trying If you happen to find it hard to have sustained conversations, try keeping your voice up at the end of the sentence. There is a charming graciousness in doing so, for it seems to say that you do not think your remarks are the last words to be said on the subject. It prevents you from seeming opinionated. How men dislike an opinionated woman! No one really likes her! To keep your voice up sounds as though you are interested in other people's ideas. The subject is still open! Margery Wilson men ideas thinking Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it. Margery Wilson shortcuts flirting dangerous Time is a friend - perhaps the best one we shall ever have. ... Time is a now - and there is only now. Memories look backward. Hope looks ahead. But there is in reality only now. Margery Wilson live-in-the-moment memories reality
