 Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. |
| There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. |
| The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. |
| The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. |
| Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. |
| Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. |
| It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. |
| Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. |
| In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. |
| Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. |
| The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. |
| One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well. |
| The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. |
| Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. |
