Alice-Leone Moats Quotes

#1. Traveling by motor is just one situation after another ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

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#2. For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn't want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

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#3. [On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties
the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.

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#4. It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

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#5. No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

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#6. Men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.

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