When Mabelle Webb died, Clifton began the mourning that lasted until his own death. Noel Coward noted in a letter, . . . "Poor Cli...fton . . . is still, after two months, wailing and sobbing over Mabelle's death. As she was well over ninety, gaga, and driving him mad for years, this seems excessive and over indulgent. . . ." The most famous remark to go the rounds of Clifton Webb's friends was Noel Coward's final, acerbic one to him: "It must be tough to be orphaned at seventy-one!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My smiling child Named for a noble ancestor... Great hunter or warrior You will be one day. Which will give your papa pride But always I will remember you thus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have it ...for her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superint...endent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Waldo Lydecker: Laura considered me the wisest, the wittiest, the most interesting man she'd ever met. I was in complete accord wi...th her on that point.... She thought me also the kindest, the gentlest, the most sympathetic man in the world. Detective Mark McPherson: Did you agree with her there, too? Waldo Lydecker: McPherson, you won't understand this, but I've tried to become the kindest, gentlest, the most sympathetic man in the world. Detective Mark McPherson: Have any luck? Waldo Lydecker: Let me put it this way: I shall be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor's children devoured by wolves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best part of myself, that's what you are. Do you think I'm going to leave it to the vulgar pawing of a second-rate detective w...ho thinks you're a "dame"? Do you think I could bear the thought of him holding you in his arms, kissing you, loving you?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »