The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

Power is a test - the test - of character.

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility f…

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at…

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and …

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but …

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

- Evalyn Walsh Mclean