It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.