Quotes by Cornelia Otis Skinner - Page 1

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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Women
Invention
Memorable
Virtue
Greatest
Man
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mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.
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Ankles
Insects
Mosquitoes
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We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
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Intelligence
Ability
Illusion
Littles
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One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
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Silent
Confusions
Draw
Learns
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Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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Love
Women
Heart
Special
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Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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Committed
Corner
Hearts
Sins
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That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.
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Art
Women
Conversation
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All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.
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Beautiful
Horse
Insane
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Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
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Heart
Tears
Tragedy
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Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
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Age
Forget
Lying
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... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.
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Belief
Miracle
Sweetheart
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The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.
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Paris
Saint
Towers
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There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
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Age
Realization
Relief
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Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
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Facts
Heaven
Rude
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It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
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Morning
Devil
Party
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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Friendship
Inspirational
Accidents
Cement
Cutting
Foreigners
Persons
Charged
Cut
Fly
Secretly
Spark
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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Apes
Curious
Disturbing
Oneself
Revelations
Spring
Theory
Validity
Ape
Appears
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Discover
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The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.
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Time
Mean
Philosophical
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Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.
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Art
Honesty
Trying
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It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
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Beautiful
Mind
Missionary
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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.
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Attitude
Food
Justice
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.
Cornelia Otis Skinner / Author
Cities
Flavor
Gourmet
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