Ilka Chase (April 8, 1905 – February 15, 1978) was an American actress of stage, television and film, radio host and novelist.
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.
Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder. . . is clothes.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.
On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you. ' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye. '
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.