The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.