Finishing schools in the fifties were a good place to store girls for a few years before marrying them off, a satisfactory rest st...op between college weekends spent husband hunting. It was a haven for those of us adept at styling each other's hair, playing canasta, and chain smoking Pall Mall extra-long cigarettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being th...an the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all li...fe and all arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influ...ence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity t...hat makes the whole world kin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »