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

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

- 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

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

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

- 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

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

- 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