Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

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.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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