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Quote by Cornelia Otis Skinner

“That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.”

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Cornelia Otis Skinner

Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author known for her witty and humorous writing style. Her works often focused on the roles and experiences of women in society, exploring their perspectives. Born on May 30, 1899, Skinner passed away on July 9, 1979. more

“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.”

“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.”

Want Mind I Can Done Beautiful Missionary Regimes Glamour Dripping Strength Of Mind

Book: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

Source: 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

“It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.”

Ifs Has Beens My Own Theory Spring Oneself Curious Occasions Revelations Disturbing Apes Validity Sprung

Book:The Ape in Me

Source: The Ape in Me

“To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.”

World Inspirational Persons Different Social Friendship Cutting Accidents Sparks Foreigners New Friends Cement New Friendship Place And Time

Author:Cornelia Otis Skinner

“We must begin to understand that the gospel deconstructs a man before it reconstructs him. First it teaches him he is entitled to nothing, and then it give him everything.”

Men Giving Firsts Teach Entitled

Book:Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ

Source: Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ

“Worship is admiration becoming adoration.”