Top 17 Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes
#1. Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#2. It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#5. Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
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#6. It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#8. Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.
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#10. All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane ...
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#11. Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
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#12. I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.
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#13. That amenity which the French have developed into a great art ... conversation.
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#14. To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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#15. 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. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.
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#16. There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
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#17. The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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