Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 15, 1885 Death: April 16, 1968
There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't..
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way..
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is fla….
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit….
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to..
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world..
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history..
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling..
A closed mind is a dying mind..
About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad..
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics..
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climb….
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak..
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?.
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late..
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, war….
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets..
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, im….
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death..
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that..
... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something need….