I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'