[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

People are more than fun than anybody.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.