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.
Ilka ChaseGeorge Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
Ilka ChaseThe 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.
Ilka ChaseWhen 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.
Ilka ChaseNeither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
Ilka ChaseI 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.'
Ilka Chase