Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cornelia Otis Skinnerwas an American author and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth30 May 1901
CountryUnited States of America
learns life
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
corner hearts women
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
love heart special
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
time philosophical mean
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.
cutting new-friendship world
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
paris towers saint
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 ...
heart tears tragedy
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
art women conversation
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.
miracle belief sweetheart
... 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.
rude heaven world
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.
art honesty trying
Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.
intelligence littles illusion
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
mosquitoes ankles filling
mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.
lying age forget
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.