Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

- Janet Flanner

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourge…

- Janet Flanner

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

- Janet Flanner

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhy…

- Janet Flanner

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been…

- Janet Flanner

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

- Janet Flanner

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

- Janet Flanner

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

- Janet Flanner

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

- Janet Flanner