Alice Duer Miller Quotes

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller

Friendship, Time, Friends

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Duer Miller

Forgiveness, Anger, Genuine

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller

Freedom, Democracy, Broken

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller

Mother, Feeling, Same

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

Feelings, Against, Weak

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller

Woman, Busy, Moment

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 28, 1874

Died: August 22, 1942

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