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(1893 - 1967)
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| Actors | Scratch an actor -- and you'll find an actress.
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| Actors | She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - (on Katherine Hepburn) | |
| Ambition | People Who Do Things exceed my endurance. God, for a man that solicits insurance! | |
| Beauty | Beauty is only skin deep; ugly goes all the way to the bone. | |
| Brevity | Brevity is the soul of lingerie. | |
| Children | The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires. | |
| Criticism | Tonstant Weader fwowed up. - (review of "Whinnie the Pooh" in her column Constant Reader) | |
| Criticism | The House Beautiful, is the play lousy. | |
| Ego | The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all history. | |
| Epigrams | You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. | |
| Health | Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond studded wheelchair | |
| Hospitals | That should assure us of at least 45 minutes of undisturbed privacy. - (to a visitor in her hospital room, after pressing the NURSE button) | |
| Idleness | I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. | |
| Life | Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. | |
| Luxuries | Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. | |
| Misfortune | Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. | |
| Money | If you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. | |
| Money | The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed". | |
| Novels | This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. | |
| Suicide | Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful:
You might as well live. | |
| Truth | I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. | |
| women | From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents; from 18 to 35 she needs good looks; from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. | |
| Yale | If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. |
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