Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#individuality #personality #style

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#love #love

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#women #money

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#only #opinions #own #people #their

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#boyhood #decades #last #life #like

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#husband #ideal #who #wife #woman

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#any #long #lose #possess #some

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#desires #especially #female #had #her

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#cherish #cushion #fine #happy #make

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#believed #drink #man #taken #them