Cleveland Amory

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. ”

The facts of life are very stubborn things. ”

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. ”

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ”

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ”

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better. ”

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ”