Booth Tarkington
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkingtonwas an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 July 1869
CityIndianapolis, IN
CountryUnited States of America
personality style doe
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
inspirational marriage wedding
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
gossip denied
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
school boys years
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
fun fool pretending
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
heart people heaven
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
love husband wife
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
boyhood natural invention
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
desire safe males
The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
boys punishment may
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
taken drinking men
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
mother angel son
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
men boys land
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
passion fate destiny
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.