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Ann Bridge Quotes

Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life Picture Quote #1

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can’t do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house Picture Quote #1

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue Picture Quote #1

Advertising... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts Picture Quote #1

The essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste Picture Quote #1

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you’re abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake Picture Quote #1

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I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can’t do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house Picture Quote #1

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do Picture Quote #1

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest Picture Quote #1

We should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it Picture Quote #1

In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew Picture Quote #1

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Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life (Ann Bridge Quotes) I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can’t do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house. (Ann Bridge Quotes) What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue (Ann Bridge Quotes) Advertising... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts (Ann Bridge Quotes) The essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste (Ann Bridge Quotes) As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you’re abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake (Ann Bridge Quotes) I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can’t do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house (Ann Bridge Quotes) Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do (Ann Bridge Quotes) The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest (Ann Bridge Quotes) We should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it (Ann Bridge Quotes) In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew (Ann Bridge Quotes)