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.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.