“Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.”
Source: Gone Girl
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American author and critic 1971Related quotes
“Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.”
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 178
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
"To David in Heaven", St. 10.
Undertones (1883)
Context: Upward my face I turn to you,
I long for you, I yearn to you,
The spectral vision trances me to utt'rance wild and weak;
It is not that I mourn you,
To mourn you were to scorn you,
For you are one step nearer to the beauty singers seek.
But I want, and cannot see you,
I seek and cannot find you,
And, see! I touch the book of songs you tenderly left behind you!
American Notes— At the Golden Gate http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/AmericanNotes/goldengate.html (1891).
Other works
“Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.”
1870s
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.