Quotes about Culture
Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
— Duke Ellington
There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
— Duncan Campbell
Our world is going through a crisis of dehumanization, breakup of family life, a general loss of moral values.
— Edith Stein
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
— Edith Wharton
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
— Edith Wharton
These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.
— Edith Wharton
Brains & culture seem non-existent from one end of the social scale to the other, & half the morons yell for filth, & the other half continue to put pants on the piano-legs.
— Edith Wharton
and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs.
— Edith Wharton
What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.
— Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.
— Edith Wharton
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
— Edith Wharton