Quotes from Ilka Chase

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?

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

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.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

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.

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.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

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.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

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.