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

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

- Grace Metalious

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

- 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

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

- Grace Metalious

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

- Grace Metalious

Indian summer is like a woman.

- Grace Metalious

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

- 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