Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amorywas an American author, reporter and commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and customs of society, starting with The Proper Bostonians in 1947. From the 1950s through the 1990s, he had a long career as a reporter and writer for national magazines, and as a television and radio commentator. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was best known for his bestselling books about...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth2 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.
Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.