13+ Grace Metalious Quotes On Faith, Death

Grace Metalious was an American novelist who wrote the 1956 novel Peyton Place. It was a best-selling novel that explored the secrets of a small New England town, and was adapted into a popular film and television series. She is also known for her other novels, The Tight White Collar and Return to Peyton Place. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Grace Metalious on faith, love, death.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. — Grace Metalious

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself. — Grace Metalious

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies. — Grace Metalious

Indian summer is like a woman. — Grace Metalious

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. — Grace Metalious

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots. — Grace Metalious

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. — Grace Metalious

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for. — Grace Metalious

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. — Grace Metalious

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth. — Grace Metalious

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest? — Grace Metalious

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand. — Grace Metalious

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting. — Grace Metalious

Life Lessons by Grace Metalious

1. Grace Metalious' work emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and standing up for what you believe in, despite the judgement of others.
2. Her novels also show that even in difficult times, it is possible to find strength and resilience within yourself.
3. Lastly, her stories demonstrate the power of love and understanding to bring people together, and to heal old wounds.