Quotes by Porter, Katherine Anne

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's o >>

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, >>

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth >>

Quotations about Order

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us tha >>

Order is power. >>

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. >>

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

Porter, Katherine Anne