I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

- Grace Metalious

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

- Grace Metalious

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who buil…

- Grace Metalious

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, fro…

- Grace Metalious

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

- Grace Metalious

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

- Grace Metalious

Indian summer is like a woman.

- Grace Metalious

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

- Grace Metalious

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

- Grace Metalious