Quotes by Marya Mannes

• It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
• All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
• By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
• 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.
• I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
• In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
• It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
• Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
• The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
• The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
• Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
• Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
• In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
• All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.