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

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

- 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…

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner