Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes

• Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Love, Women, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Women, Memorable, Virtue

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• We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Intelligence, Littles, Illusion

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• Es inquietante descubrir en uno mismo estas curiosas revelaciones sobre la validez de la teoría darwiniana. Si es cierto que hemos brotado del mono, hay ocasiones en que mi propio brote parece no haber ido muy lejos.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Apes, Curious

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• Los franceses no tienen la expresión "matar el tiempo". En su vocabulario más filosófico, el término es "pasar el tiempo", que significa saborear todos los momentos del mismo para disfrute de cada uno. Mientras nosotros luchamos contra el tiempo, ellos se relajan con el tempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Time, Philosophical, Mean

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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• 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.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Honesty, Trying

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• Para cimentar una nueva amistad, especialmente entre extranjeros o personas de un mundo social diferente, debe saltar de persona a persona una chispa con la que ambos estaban cargados en secreto, y atravesar los accidentes del lugar y el tiempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Inspirational, Friendship, Cutting

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• There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Age, Relief, Realization

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”

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• mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Mosquitoes, Ankles, Insects

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• It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that 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

  Beautiful, Mind, Missionary

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

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

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Heart, Tears, Tragedy

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• Que la comida haya sido siempre, y siga siendo, la base de uno de nuestros mayores esnobismos no explica el hecho de que la actitud hacia la elección alimentaria de los demás sea cada vez más acaloradamente excluyente hasta convertirse en una de esas formas de fanatismo contra las que los pequeños comités galantes planean constantemente campañas en pro de la justicia y la decencia.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Attitude, Food, Justice

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• 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

  Lying, Age, Forget

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• That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Women, Conversation

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1962). “Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque", Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans”

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• 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

  Rude, Heaven, Facts

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• 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

  Paris, Saint, Towers

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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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

  Miracle, Belief, Sweetheart

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

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

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Beautiful, Horse, Insane

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• 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

  Morning, Party, Devil

  1959 Of opening night reviews.The Ape In Me.

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