Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
Cornelia Otis SkinnerTragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
Cornelia Otis Skinner... 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.
Cornelia Otis SkinnerAll I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.
Cornelia Otis SkinnerThere is no English equivalent for the French word flรขneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flรขneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.
Cornelia Otis Skinner