Occupation: Writer Birth: February 13, 1910 Death: February 4, 1997
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own..
prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on the….
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together..
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner..
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give..
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action..
A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man..
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased..
Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat..
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly be….
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind..
The modification of prejudice takes a long time, and occurs as the result of a thousand things that happen to the prejudiced person - things he sees ….
the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themsel….
The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money….
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire..
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love..
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and e….
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and mo….
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me..
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great dea….
The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmos….