Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

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I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
We all have our little illusions about our own mental capacities.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
One learns to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art... conversation.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Cornelia Otis Skinner