I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.