In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.