the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.