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.
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must … - Cornelia Otis Skinner
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must …
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
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… - Cornelia Otis Skinner
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…
mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.
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 … - Cornelia Otis Skinner
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 …
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all mom… - Cornelia Otis Skinner
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all mom…
All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. - Cornelia Otis Skinner
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
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