My specialty is detached malevolence.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.